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mal heat be owing to nervous energy, or any way connected 
with the nervous system, why, it may be asked, are birds so 
much hotter than the mammalia?. why is the temperature 
of most quadrupeds higher than that of man? Or if it be 
owing to digestion, and secretion, and animal action, why 
is the temperature of the amphibia and of fishes so low 
where powers in respect to these functions are so consid- 
erable ? 
Or if it be connected with excess energy, why are the 
animals whose muscular powers are most remarkable, the 
animals belonging to all the jower classes, equally remarka- 
ble for the lowness of their temperature ? 
Or lastly, if animal heat depend at all on peculiarities of 
structure and organization, why, it may be asked, is not the 
temperature of the amphibia, elevated eae ove of ol 
the structure of the respiratory, and digesti ting 
— of one class, being so much like tlioss of the other ? 
d. Phil. Jour. 
_ 3. East Coast of West Greenland, formerly inhabited by 
Europeans.—Early history informs us that a part of the east 
coast of West G eee was colonized by Norwegians from 
Iceland. The colony rave been considerable, and 
to have extended: northward to at 65° or 66.° Some au- 
thors, (and particularly a writer in the Edinburgh Review,) 
maintain, that no such colony ever existed ; on the contra- 
ry, that the Norwegians landed and colonized the west, not 
east coast of old Greenland. The late observations of 
Scoresby, and the details given by Giesecké, in a memoir 
published in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 
demonstrate the futility of the opinion, just mentioned. Gies- 
ke, who spent ore. years in Greenland, tells us he met 
with or ad : yy, Norwegian houses, in the fiords or — 
firths of East Greenland, fragments of church 
bells, Tidsecal sculls of ts Caucasian or European race of men. 
the -of the Greenlanders, he detected man 
Scandinavian or “Teelandic words, used in domestic life, a 
settlers, such as the so saucuparia. In reference to the Ae 
the corms our author remarks ; 
ins of Norwegian houses were surrounded by immense wins. 
