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Frozen Ocean, and return thence into the Tempe- 

 rate Zone, when the Sun traces backward his pro- 

 grefs, at the rate of only four, or, at moft, five 

 leagues a day, without being incommoded, the 

 whole journey through, with either the fultry heat 

 of Summer, or the froft of Winter. It is by regu- 

 lating themfelves according to the annual courfe 

 of the Sun, that certain Tartar-hordes ftill travel. 



What a fpectacle muft the virgin Earth have 

 prefented to it's firft inhabitants, while every thing 

 was as yet in it's place, and Nature not yet de- 

 graded by the injudicious labours, or the defperate 

 madnefs of Man ! I fuppofe them taking their de- 

 parture from the banks of the Indus, that land 

 which is the cradle of the Human Race, on a pro- 

 grefs northward. They firft crofted the lofty 

 mountains of Bember, continually covered with 

 fnow, which, like a rampart, encompafs the happy 

 land of Cachemire, and feparate it from the burn- 

 ing kingdom of Lahor*. They prefented them- 

 felves to their eyes like vaft amphitheatres of ver- 

 dure, clothed, to the South, with all the vegetables 

 of India, and, to the North, with all thofe of Eu- 

 rope. They defcended into the vaft bafon which 

 contains them, and there they beheld a part of the 

 fruit-trees which were deftined one day to enrich 



* Confult Bemier's Defcription of the Mogul Country. 



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