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KAMTSCHATKA, 



THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, AND BEERING*S 

 STRAITS. 



We have cast a look over the waters of the Great 

 Ocean, and its shores, and viewed the islands situ- 

 ated in it, between the tropics, from the Indies, as 

 from the mother country to which they belong, 

 and whence organic nature and man have spread 

 over them. 



We now turn from those gardens of pleasure to 

 the dreary north, in the same ocean basin. The 

 song is past. A clouded sky receives us on the 

 very limits of the northern monsoon. We pene- 

 trate through the gloomy veil, which eternally 

 hovers over these seas, and shores not shaded by a 

 tree, inhospitably frown upon us, with their snow- 

 crowned summits. 



We shudder to find man also settled here ! * 

 That part of the land and sea, which we are now 



* Homo sapiens habitat intra tropicos palmis lotophagus, 

 hospitatur extra tropicos sub novercante Cesere carnivorus. — 

 Lin. S^st. Nat. 



Ipsos Germanos indigenas crediderim.— Quis — Asia aut Africa 

 aut Italia relicta, Germaniam peteret ? Informem tcrris, aspe- 

 ram ccelo, tristem cultu aspectuque, nisi si patriu sit. — Tacit. 

 Gernu 2. 



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