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Guiana 3 a country, which, except 

 its fea coaft, and the lands adjacent to 

 its rivers, remains hitherto unexplored, 

 by the fubjects of any European State, 

 and unknown to all, but its aboriginal 

 Natives. Yet if we may be allowed 

 to form an idea of things undifcover- 

 ed, by the immenfe variety, uncom- 

 mon mechanifm, and properties, of 

 its Animal and Vegetable Productions, 

 which have fpontaneoufly prefented 

 themfelves within the confined limits, 

 to which our indolent enquirers have 

 extended their obfervations, we may 

 juftly conclude, that the bleffings of Na- 

 ture, have in no part of our habitable 

 fyftem, been difpenfed with a more 

 liberal hand, and that no part of this 

 Terreftrial Globe, affords more abund- 

 ant caufe, to admire and adore, the flu- 

 pendous Power, Wifdom, and Benefi- 

 cence of its Creator. 



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