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cf that extensive country were bold and hardy bar-
parlans, and many of them continue so to this day
So much for the temperate zone, which contains the
prime of mankind. They differ extremely, however,
in governments, laws, customs, and religions. The
Christian religion has the credit of reckoning among
its votaries all the civilized people of Europe and
America. The Mahometan possesses all the nearer
parts of Asia and the north of Africa; but China,
Japan, and most of the circumjacent countries, profess
different forms of paganism. ‘The east, in gencral, is
enslaved to despotism ; but the nobler west enjoys, in
most of its states, more or less of freedom.

As to the frigid zone, its few inhabitants can but
just sustain a lite little better than that of the brutes.
‘heir faculties are benumbed by the climate. Their
chief employment is the fishery or the chase, by which
they procure their food. The tending of herdsof reindeer
in some parts varies their cceupations and dict. They
pass their long winters in holes dug under-ground,
where they doze out most oftheir time in stupid repose.

£. 1 wonder any people should stay in such
miserable places. .

P. Yet none of the inhabitants of the globe seem
more attached to their country and way of lite. Nor do
they, undeed, want powers to render their situation
toierably comfortable. Their canoes, and tishing and
hunting tackle, are made with great ingenuity; and
their clothing 1s admirably adapted to fence against
the rigours of cold. They are not without some
amusements to cheer the gloom of their condition ;
but they are abjectly superstitious, and given to fear
and melancholy.

£. if Thad my choice, I would rather go to a
warmer than a colder country.

#. Perhaps the warmer countries are pleasanter ;
bub there are few advantages which are not balanced
by ss Se incex™“eniences;, and it is the truest wisdora

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