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Globes of this defcription, that is to fay, terreftrial globes, are feen on ancient medals, jand in paintings of antiquity ft.
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Its principal merit confifts in the anatomical defcription, which is executed with the greateft accuracy and minutenefs.
The Monthly Review 1772
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Still, fpite of fo many \m* favourable circumftances, the geographical part of our labours are not the lefs interefting; and it will no doubt be eafy forme to prove, by the narrative of our operations of this defcription, how much they do honour to the French navy.
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Here alfo are crocodiles, which live on land as well as in the water oyfl; ers and fliell fifli of eyery defcription, and turtle of a very large fize.
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Under the denomination of the Philippines a confiderable number of iflands are com* prized; but as the detail of the whole ot them would be tedious, I fliall confine myfelf * to a defcription of the larger only, and thofe moft deferring attention.
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I fliall not fet down all that appeared to me worthy of obfervation on the fubjed of this tree, as Valentyn, in his defcription of the trees and plants of Amboyna; is ample in his account of it; but I fhall only make mention of what he has not noticed.
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It will be neceffarv, either by the regulations fuggefled in this propofi - tion, or by others of a fimiiar defcription, to guard againll the evil therein de - fcribed. loth.
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How well they have profecuted the firft maxim, has been very largely fhewn, in a foregoing article, wherein we have an ample defcription of the mighty empire in the hands of their Eaft India Company.
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Public diCcuffion on fuch an import - ant queftion, may poffibly produce an aiieration of opinion on fome of the details j and though the fubjeft has been fully confidered, it may be deemed necefiary, in the further progrefs of the meafure, topropofe, on fome points, legulations of a dif - ferent defcription from thofe which are luggefted in the cnclofed obfervations.
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More than a hundred and fifty fpedes of infefts of novel defcription were added to my former colledions; among thefe, forty butterflies, the chief of them of the mofl: lively and fplendid colours.
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