A GLOBE LECTULSS. 43h 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 af 6> -w. & ke 2