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Oct.] give rie to a great number of prings. They are, nevertheles, very rare; as the earth is not ufficiently attenuated to retain the water, which filtrating through the volcanic oil, dicharges itelf, for the greater part, into the ocean, without collecting into regular treams.

As oon as we had urmounted thee thick clouds, we enjoyed a pectacle beautiful beyond conception. The clouds heaped up below us appeared blended with the ditant ocean, and concealed the iland from our ight. The ky above us formed a vault of the mot tranparent azure, whilt the peak appeared like an inulated mountain placed in the midt of a vat expane of waters.

Soon after we had left the clouds beneath us, I oberved a phenomenon, which I had formerly had occaion to remark, during my tay amongt the high mountains of Keroan in Natolia. It was with new urprie that I aw the outlines of my figure, delineated in all the beautiful tints of the rainbow, upon the clouds below me, ituated oppoite to the un.

The decompoition of the rays of the un, by

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