tvhich take place in different Climates. 34^ 



manner by the teftimony of Homer, who fays in the Odyfley, 

 that in Lybia the Iambs had horns from their birth, owing 

 to the great heat. Strabo, as a proof of the great cold which 

 prevailed in the country now called the Ukraine, obferves 

 that it produced no air s ; animals, fays he, which cannot 

 endure the cold : and he adds, that the horfes there were 

 extremely fmall. Bat nothincr, indeed, is more aftonifting 

 than the telUmony of Paufanias, who fays exprelsly, that in 

 Thrace there were in his time bears and wild fwine of a 

 white colour. Such animals at prefent are found only in 

 the remotell parts of the north, on the other fide of the 

 polar circle. We are told by Virgil, Ovid, and Pomponius 

 Mela, that the inhabitants of the European part of Scythia 

 and Thrace lived, during the whole winter, under the earth 

 (as the Laplanders do at prefent) ; that they burnt large 

 logs of wood to keep themfelves warm; that they never 

 went abroad without being wrapped up m fkins ; and that 

 they left no part of the body uncovered but the mouth and 

 eyes. Pomponius Mela fays, Specus aut fuffoOa habitant, 

 totum braccati corpus, et niji qua vident etiam ora vejiili. 



I think it of importance to point out here the boundaries 

 of thofe countries towards the north, which the ancients 

 confidered as defolate and uninhabitable on account of the 

 great intcnfity of the cold. Herodotus fays, that beyond the 

 Melanchlini, a Sarmatian people, fo called from their black 

 hair, there were only lakes, morafles, and unmliabitable 

 diftrifts as far as was then known ; and we learn from Ovid 

 that on the other fide of the Cimmerian Bofphorus, the Ta- 

 nais, and the Scythian morafies, a cold prevailed which 

 rendered the country uninhabitable, 



Bofii oiusc. Ti.iais fu^'ci i!U Scvli JL'c[ii«; paluiles; 

 I Itcrius nihil i.ft, mfi non liub taniL f 'lijiis 



This 13 exprefsly confirmed by geographers and hiflorians. 



Strabo repeats, fcveral tnue^, that all the lands to^' irds the 



north of the tnbcs who lived on tiie bunks of uiu Tanais 



Z 4 aud 



