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in which Adam and 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 exactly the paths of their forefathers.
Indeed were the people here only tolerably industrious, there is scarcely any Luxury which might [not] be produc’d that either Europe or the Indies afford, owing to the great difference of Climate observable in ascending the hills; this we experien[c]d 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, and apples, but in the town you find some few plants
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© Derived from State Library of NSW Transcription of Banks's Journal page (vol.1) 24, February 2004
Published by kind permission of the Library
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