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rays in rainbows of purple, and parhelions of daz- 

 zling radiance. But, if the magnificence of the 

 Heavens was multiplied, defolation covered the 

 face of the Earth. The Ocean was hoary with 

 mountains of floating ice, which appeared in the 

 Horizon like towers and cities in ruin ; and on the 

 land, nothing to be feen, in place of groves, but 

 a wretched fhrubbery blafted by the winds, and 

 inftead of verdant meads, rocks clothed with mofs. 

 The flocks which had accompanied them muft 

 there undoubtedly have primed ; but even there 

 Nature had ftill made provifion for the neceffities 

 of Man. Thofe fhores were compofed of mafly 

 beds of coal *. The feas fwarmed with fifties, and 

 the lakes with fowls. They muft find, among the 

 animal tribes, fervants and affiliants : the rein-deer 

 appeared in the middle of the mofles : (he pre- 

 fented to thofe wandering families, the fervices of 

 the horfe in her agility, the fleece of the fheep in 

 her fur ; and fhewing them, like the cow, her four 

 teats, and but one nuriling, fhe feemed to tell 

 them that fhe was deftined, like her, to fhare her 

 milk with mothers opprefled by a too numerous 

 offspring, 



But the Eaft muft have been the part of the 

 Globe which firft attracted the attention of Man- 



* Profeflbr Gmlin's Journey to Siberia. 



kind. 



