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6 produce the tronget Bodies, and mot martial Spirits; the hotter, lazy Bodies with cunning and obtinate Paions; but the temperate Regions, lying under the benign Influences of a genial Sky, have the bet Chance for a fine Perception, and a proportioned Eloquence Let it be thought that thee Conequences are trained, it may be worth while to et down the Opinion at length of the Great Hippocrates, in his Treatie of Air, Water and Situation: &c. To the ame Purpoe the Philoopher,. . Good Sene is indeed aid to be the Product of every Country, and I believe it is; but the richet Growths, and fairet Shoots of it, pring, like other