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SECT. XIV. 
IX. OF THE UTILITY OF WINDS. 
Sylphs! your light troops the tropic winds confine., 
And guide their streaming arrows to the line; 
While in warm floods ecliptic breezes rise, 
And sink with wings benumb’d in colder skies. 
You bid monsoons on Indian seas reside. 
And veer, as moves the sun, the airy tide; 
While southern gales o’er western ocean roll. 
And Eurus steels his ice-winds from the pole. 
Darwin. 
Having discoursed on the months Frimaire and Nivose (December and 
January), marked by ice and snow, which we have shewn to be highly 
oxygenated waters, we are arrived next at the month, February, which, in our 
new English Calendar, we have designated by the Thawing Month. 
In this month the sun occasional!v bursts out and melts the ice and snow 
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covering the earth, which circumstance is thus beautifully described by our 
first of English poets: 
.When white winter o’er the shivering clime 
Drives the still snow, or showers the silver rime; 
As the lone shepherd o’er the dazzling rocks 
Prints his steep step, and guides his vagrant flocks; 
Views the green holly veil’d in network nice. 
Her vernal clusters twinkling in the ice; 
Admires the lucid vales, and slumbering floods. 
Fantastic cataracts, and crystal woods. 
Transparent towns, with seas of snow between, 
And eyes with transport the refulgent scene:.... 
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