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verging, as It were from a central point, is 

 felt on all quarters of the ifland. 



Without thefe beneficent provifions of 

 nature no tropical climate could have been 

 habitable : nor does that great parent in any- 

 thing more admirably difplay her guardian 

 car,e, nor more ftrikingly exhibit the uni- 

 verfal confiftency, or the happy order and 

 arrangement of her works. The intenfe heat 

 between the tropics muft have been deftruc- 

 tive to animal life, had not an antidote been 

 offered in the refreshing trades ; which, form- 

 ing the fuite of a burning fun, moderate the 

 effe&s of his too effulgent rays. 



The day is nearly of equal length through* 

 out the whole circle of the year. We have 

 none of the fhort dark days of an Englifh 

 winter, nor of the ftill ihorter light nights of 

 a Scottifh fummer. Nights of one or two 

 hours, and days of fix or feven are here 

 equally unknown : until nearly the hour of 

 fix fair Aurora opens not her gates to fpread 

 around her eaftern beams, and folemn Vefper, 

 with little variation throughout the year, 

 clofes the fpangled brightnefs of the weft 



