2 4° Mifcellanea Curio fa. 



degree of Heat to raifc the Water with its 

 Earthy Charge into them ; Then the Shrubs 

 and higher Vegetables in their Turns - y and laft- 

 ly, the Trees. As the Heat increafes, it grows 

 too powerful, and hurries the Matter with too 

 great Rapidity thorough the finer and more 

 tender Plants : Thefe therefore go off, and de- 

 cay j and others that are more hardy and vigo- 

 rous, and require a greater (hare of Heat, fuo 

 ceed in their Order. By which Mechanilm, 

 provident Nature furnifhes us with a very vari* 

 ous and differing Entertainment \ and what is 

 belt fuited to each Seafbn, all the Year round. 



As the Heat of the feveral Seafbns affords us 

 a different Face of Things 5 fo the feveral di- 

 ftant Climates mew different Scenes of Na- 

 ture, and Productions of the 

 * C E ° a f h Earth * The Hotrer Coun- 



267. ' &fc\! tries yield ordinarily the lar- 



geft and talleft Trees ; and 

 thofe in too much greater variety than the colder 

 ever do. Even thofe Plants which are common 

 to both, attain to a much greater Bulk in the 

 Southern than in the Northern Climes. Nay, 

 there are fbme Regions ib bleak and chill, that 

 they raife ho Vegetables at all to any confidera- 

 ble Size. This we learn from Greenland, from 

 Ifeland 9 and other Places of like cold Site and 

 Condition. In thefe no Tree ever appears ; and 

 the very Shiubs they afford, are few, little, and 

 low. 



Again, in the warmer Climates, and fiich as 

 do furnifti forth Trees and the larger Vegetables, 

 if there happen a remiifion or diminution of the 

 ufaal Heat, their Productions will be impeded 

 and diminfhed in proportion. Our late Colder 



Summers 



