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' : Pup, *Woald not the eartb be more beautiful if it was one smooth, extended. plain, without hills and mpuntains. Do uot the mountains disfigure it? Tut. By no means. Do you think the amali, parti- - cles of dust that fall upon common globes disfigure then, 2 The mountains are no greater in comparison with the whole earth, tham the dust to the globes ; or ‘the roughness of an orange. Without mountains, we should have no springs nor rivers: they receive the vapours, the rain, and the snow, which supply the springs with water. Mountains are the grand magazines of metals, minerals, marbles, stones, &c. and besides attracting the clouds, they shelter the lowlands and valleys from the bleak and cold winds. Pup, What is the use of these sandhills which are so numerous, and upon which nothing grows 7 Tut. They serve to hinder the boisterous waves of the sea from overflowing the low countries. This is worthy your reflection, that small grains of sand, which you can blow away with your breath, when thrown into a mass, form such a strong barrier against the raging ocean, that though the waves thereof toss themselves, they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet cannot they pass over it. & t Pup. Is the internal part of the earth the same as
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the external? . * , ... . . . - Tat. Not entirely so, forthere are in the earth many metals, as gold, silver, coppér, tin, lead, and iron. . . Èup. Why are these inder the surface of the earth? Tut. That they might be no hinderance to agricultuțe, ,
