Ill STUDIES OF nature; 



their claws ; and prefent to the Cara'ibs, on the 

 fteril ilrand of their ifles, innumerable (hells re- 

 pleniihed with exquifite marrow. At other fea- 

 fons, on the contrary, the tortoife quits the Sea, 

 and lands on the fame fliores, to accumulate layers 

 of eggs in their barren fands. 



The very ices of the Pole are inhabited. We 

 find in their Seas, and under their floating pro- 

 montories of cryftal, the black enormous whale, 

 with more oil on his back than a whole plantation 

 of olives could produce. Foxes clothed in pre- 

 cious furs, find the means of living on fliores 

 abandoned by the Sun ; herds of rein-deer there 

 fcratch up the fnow in fearch of mofs, and advance, 

 braying, into thofe defolate regions of night, by 

 the glimmering light of the Aurora Borea/is. 

 Through a Providence, worthy of the highefl; ad- 

 miration, places the mod unprolific, prefent to 

 Man, in the greatefl; abundance, provifions, cloth- 

 ing, lamps, and firing, not of his own produc- 

 tion. 



How delightful would it be to behold the Hu- 

 man Race coUeding all thefe various bleflings, and 

 communicating them to each other, in peace, from 

 Climate to Climate ! We look with expeftation, 

 every Winter, to the period when the fwallow and 

 the nightingale fliall announce to us the return of 



ferenity. 



