3992. on anima and vegetable food. 125 
out this animal diet, which necefsity prescribes to 
tthese nations, their blood would not receive that rich- 
_-nefs of oleaginous and igneous particles, by which, 
alone, they are enabled to resist the dreadful cold of 
~ the country they inhabit. In the huts of the Green~ 
landers, and other natives of the frigid zone, no fire is 
seen, but the flames of the lamps that are kept burn~ 
ing by the several families*. ‘Phe little warmth which 
these lamps diffuse, would be swallowed up by the 
Greenland cold, like drops by the ocean, were it not 
for the constantly equal warmth, or rather heat, 
produced by the vapours of the human body. This 
heat arising from the exhalations of the Greenland- 
ers is so great, that the Europeans not inured to it, 
_ are in danger of being suffocated by it, or at least 
of fainting. The Rufsian jegers, or hunters, whe 
pafs the winter in Nova Zembla, are forced to adopt 
the practice of the Samojedes, by drinking freth 
rein deer blood, as well as eating its flefh, for sub- 
sisting in this otherwise inhospitable country, and 
preserving themselves from dangerous distempers. . 
_ But lest the great accumulation of phlogiston in the 
blood, produced by the incefsant use of flefh meats, 
fhould engender putrid diseases, and not merely ex- 
cite a salutary heat, benignant nature has bestowed 
on the otherwise tremendous polar countries, 2 
pure ztherial atmosphere, which greedily imbibes 
the noxious superfluity of phlogiston; and by its 
antiseptic quality must counteract the putridity ari- 
6ing in animal substances. 
To be continued. 
* Crantz, p. 187, 
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