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 holds its course along the ancient continent, it arrives at the countries which stretch along the western shore of Africa, inflamed with all the fiery partielesparticles [sic] which it hath colleetedcollected [sic] from the sultry plains of Asia, and the burning sands in the African deserts. The coast of Africa is aceordinglyaccordingly [sic] the region of the earth which feels the most fervent heat, and is exposed to the unmitigated ardour of the torrid zone. But this same wind, which brings such an aeeessionaccession [sic] of warmth to the countries lying between the river of Senegal and Caffraria, traverses the AtlantieAtlantic [sic] OeeanOcean [sic] before it reaches the American shore. It is cooled in its passage over this vast body of water; and is felt as a refreshing gale along the eoastscoasts [sic] of Brazil and Guiana, rendering those eountriescountries [sic], though amongst the warmest in AmerieaAmerica [sic], temperate, when eomparedcompared [sic] with those which lie opposite to them in Africa. As this wind advances in its eoursecourse [sic] across AmerieaAmerica [sic], it meets with immense plains eoveredcovered [sic] with impenetrable forests; or oceupiedoccupired [sic] by large rivers, marshes, and stagnating waters, where it eancan [sic] reeoverrecover [sic] no eonsiderableconsiderable [sic] degree of heat. At length, it arrives at the Andes, which run from N. to S. through the whole continent. In passing over their elevated and frozen summits, it is so thoroughly cooled, that the greater part of the eountriescountries [sic] beyond them hardly feel the ardour to which they seem exposed by their situation. In the other provinces of AmerieaAmerica [sic], from Terra Firma westward to the MexieanMexican [sic] Empire, the heat of the elimateclimate [sic] is tempered, in some plaeesplaces [sic], by the elevation of the land above the sea; in others, by their extraordinary humidity; and in all, by the enormous mountains seatteredscattered [sic] over this traettract [sic]. The