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Madeira

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in which Adam & Eve dwelt before the fall, for had it been so, the inhabitants here would never have been induc'd to put on Cloaths; so much are they resolvd in every particular to follow the exactly the paths of their forefathers.

Indeed were the people here only tolerably industrious, there is scarcely any Luxury which might be produc'd here that either Europe or the Indies afford; owing to the great difference of Climate observable in ascending the hills; this we experiend in a visit to Dr Heberden, who lives about two miles from the town, we left the Thermometer when we set out at 74, and found it there at 66:  indeed the hills produce almost spontaneously vast plenty of Wallnutts, chestnutts, & apples, but in the town you find some few plants

 

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