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REMARKS 



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ANIMAL Zeeland! The rocky mountains, the forefts, yea 



human nature 



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The animal creation are al- 



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itfelf, all look favagc and forbidding. 



ready lefs happy than between the tropic 



the tyrants of the wood, prey upon the weak and defencelefs 



s, and hawks and owls,. 



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however 



whole 



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nual fon 



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of which 



fweetnefs, emulates that of our firft fongfliei 



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we ad 



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vance to the South, and crofs an immenfe ocean, in the midfl of 

 which we fee fome lonely birds, fkimming the waves, and colled:- 

 ing an uncertain fuftenance y we arrive at the South-end of Ameri- 

 ca, and view a barren coaft, inhabited by the laft and moil mi- 

 ferable of men, and but fcantily clad with low and crooked 



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jihrubs : we find a number of vultures, eagles, and hawks, always 



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hovering about, upon the watch for prey : and laflly, we obferve 



of the other birds live gregarious in a few 



that the greateft part 



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fpots ; whilil the rocks are occupied by a race of feals, which in 



comparifon 

 fliapen. 



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with the reft of animals, feem monftrous and mif 



The clalTes of birds and fifhes, are the only numerous ones m. 

 the countries which we have viiited : thofe of quadrupeds and in- 



fed:s are confined to an exceeding fmall number of well known 



likewifv 



fpecies. Thofe of cetacea, amphibia and verm^es, are 



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not numerous, and the tv/o firft epecialiy contain fcarce any thing 



new 



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