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dren—and rejoicing in their smoking kettles of food. At 
other times their gluttonous practices render them equally 
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the Finns, who border on the wandering Lappes; it is obvi- 
ous that they all rise in the intellectual scale, as they ad- 
vance towards more temperate climates. Their powers of 
observation are arrested by the greater variety of surro 
ing objects, and their ingenuity quickened in prov iding them- 
selves with conveniences and comforts. Their physical ca- 
pacities, free from the paralyzing effects of perpetual frost, 
second their activity; their minds expand with various emo- 
tions ; imagination finds a corner to reside in; an in pro- 
portion as their scope is enlarged, they also indulge in those 
wild and cruel passions which darken and deform savage life. 
Saniit scientific officers and gentlemen attached to the ex- 
itions were unremitting in making observations upon the 
ides and currents, iactococlantens “and astronomical phe- 
nomena, the magnetic force, and the variation of the nee- 
dle. “ Professor Barlow remarks, that the magnetic exper- 
ments cannot fail to be highly interesting to those who are 
