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 partieles which it hath colleeted from the sultry plains of Asia, and the burning sands in the African deserts. The coast of Africa is aceordingly 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 aeeession of warmth to the countries lying between the river of Senegal and Caffraria, traverses the Atlantie Oeean 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 eoasts of Brazil and Guiana, rendering those eountries, though amongst the warmest in Ameriea, temperate, when eompared with those which lie opposite to them in Africa. As this wind advances in its eourse across Ameriea, it meets with immense plains eovered with impenetrable forests; or oceupied by large rivers, marshes, and stagnating waters, where it ean reeover no eonsiderable 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 eountries beyond them hardly feel the ardour to which they seem exposed by their situation. In the other provinces of Ameriea, from Terra Firma westward to the Mexiean Empire, the heat of the elimate is tempered, in some plaees, by the elevation of the land above the sea; in others, by their extraordinary humidity; and in all, by the enormous mountains seattered over this traet. The
