STUDY XII. Il 



time, the companions of their early life, their firfl; 

 loves, the recolledion of their indulgent grand- 

 fathers, and the like. 



The love of Country feems to ftrengthen in pro- 

 portion as it is innocent and unhappy. For this 

 reafon Savages are fonder of their Country than 

 poliflied Nations are ; and thofe who inhabit re- 

 gions rough and wild, fuch as mountaineers, than 

 thofe who live in fertile countries and fine cli- 

 mates. Never could the Court of Ruffia prevail 

 upon a fingle Samoïcde to leave the fliores of the 

 Frozen Ocean, and fettle at Peterfburg. Somp 

 Greenlanders were brought, in the courfe of the 

 laft century, to the Court of Copenhagen, where 

 they were entertained with a profufion of kindnefs, 

 but foon fretted themfelves to death. Several of 

 them were drowned, in attempting to return to 

 their Country in an open boat. They beheld all 

 the magnificence of the Court of Denmark with 

 extreme indifference ; but there was one, in par- 

 had not feen for a confiderable time, it would exprefs fome ex- 

 traordinary emotion. Though phyfical fenfations attach us 

 llrongly to Country, moral fentiments alone can give them a 

 vehement intenfity. Time, which bkints the former, gives only 

 a keener edge to the latter. For this reafon it is, that veneration 

 for a monument is always in proportion to it's antiquity, or to 

 it's diflance ; this explains that expreffion of Tacitus: Major e 

 longirtquo renjcrentia : diilaace increafes reverence. 



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