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form mountains, gradually rifing in the fame proportions to a vafl 

 height, betwixt which runs a valley near half a league in breadth, 

 and a river fometimes fpreading into little lakes, and fometimes 

 precipitating itfelf down the rocks, in foaming and fonorous cas- 

 cades. On both fides it is bordered with the fmeff. meadows, in- 

 termingled with little thickets; and the eafy declivities of the 

 verdant mountains covered with fruitful fields, and farm-houfes 

 Handing above each other in a fucceflion of natural terrafles. Be- 

 tween thefe a (lately foreff. prefents itfelf to the view, and be- 

 yond that, the fummits of mountains covered with perpetual fnow, 

 and frill beyond thefe, ten or twelve ftreams iffuing from the fnow- 

 mountain, and forming an agreeable contrafr. in their meanders 

 along the blooming fides of the mountain, till they lofe them- 

 felves in the rivers beneath. In other places, efpecially Ofterland, 

 and even beyond Drontheim, in North-land, iii the diftriclis of 

 Salten and Senien, there are likewife very pleafant fpots, befides 

 other advantages, which the inhabitants reap from the mountains, 

 of which, to avoid prolixity, I now take my leave. But if any 

 want further motives or informations on this head, to lead their 

 meditations to God, as the God of the mountains^ I refer them to 

 the ivth chapter of Derham's Phyfico Theology. 



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