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Excerpt from The Wonders of Creation, Natural and Artificial, Vol. 1 of 2: Being an Account of the Most Remarkable Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Cataracts, Mineral Springs, Miscellaneous Curiosities, and Antiquities in the World; Compiled From Geographers, Historians, and Travellers, of the Greatest Celebrity
Here the reader may expatiate on. Things worthy admiration, and View, as they rise, these-wonders, which owe'their existence to the immediate hand of God, or the effect'of human invention. He must not be discour aged by the length of the journey, for he 'will find such a variety of entertaining oh jects by the way, as will make him forget the pains he may take in climbing the rugged Alps, or traversing the deserts of Africa. Besides, if he make proper re?ections on the Surprising works of Providence, as well as those the art of man has produced, he will not only have the pleasure of gratifying his curiosity, but probably enlarge his stock both of piety and knowledge.
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