STUDY X, 77 



trials, which inhabit thofe regions, are robed in 

 fur to the very tip of their claws. 



When the feafon returns for reftoring heat to 

 thofe climates, the Sun re-appears there a con- 

 siderable time before his natural term. Thus, the 

 Dutch mariners, whom I have juft mentioned, 

 faw him, to their aftonifhment, above the Horizon 

 of Nova Zembla, on the twenty-fourth of January, 

 that is, fifteen days fooner than they expected him. 

 This return, fo much earlier than their hopes had 

 fafliioned it, filled them with joy, and difcon- 

 certed the calculations of their intelligent pilot, 

 the unfortunate Barents, 



It is then that the Star 'of Day there redoubles 

 his heat and his light, by means of the parhelions, 

 which, like fo many mirrors formed in the clouds, 

 reflect his difk upon the Earth. He calls from 

 Africa the winds of the South, which, pafling over 

 Zara, whofe fands are then violently heated by the 

 vicinity of the Sun to their Zenith, load them- 

 felves with igneous particles, and proceed to at- 

 tack, like battering rams of fire, that tremendous 

 cupola of ice which covers the extremity of our 

 Hemifphere. It's enormous vaultage, diffolved 

 by the heat of thofe winds, and loofened by their 

 violent agitations, detaches itfelf in fragments as 

 lofty as mountains ; and, floating at the difcretion 



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