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Excerpt from A New Theory, Accounting for the Dip of the Magnetic Needle: Being an Analysis of Terrestrial Magnetism, With a Solution of the Lines of Variation and Ariation, and an Explanation of the Nature of a Magnet
The Supreme Architect, however, has not ordained an uniformity of climate from pole to pole; and though he has made'man so wonder fully that he can accommodate himself to the circumstances of an equatorial or arctic climate; to the fervid re?ection of the scorching sands of Africa, glowing with the intensity of a vertical sun; or to the hyperborean rigors of those dreary and desolate regions, whose iron womb and snow clad bosom, deny him all the loveliness of nature's livery - so dreary and monotonous that even the fertilizing sun forgets to look upon his patrimony for months together; though man is so wonderful ly formed, that he can accommodate himself to all this, yet cannot, for the most part, the rest of nature's works.
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