32 ANT IE NT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



tall men living upon the banks of the Nile, above Egypt, whom Mr 

 Bruce calls Troglodites, dwell, as he fays, in caves, inftead of houfes. 

 I myfelf know a man who travelled 350 miles upon the fide of 

 Hudfon's Bay, as cold a climate, I believe, as any in the world, 

 in the middle of winter, and never was under a roof all the while, 

 yet kept his health perfedly well f. And it is a fad well known to 

 the gentlemen of the army, that our foldiers never keep their healths 

 better than w^hen they are lying in the fields in the winter, without 



even 



educerent fobolem, dial funt inde procreati. The pafTage in Homer alluded to by 

 Servius is in the 19th Odyfley, verfe 163. 



Ov yxf ciTto ^fvc; iTFi TrxXtcifxToVf «vr utto Tnr^r,;, 



where the fchbliafl: and Euftathius give the fame account of the fable- And this 

 fliows us how wonderfully antient hiftory, and even antient fable, are explained by 

 the relations of modern travellers. 



t This gentleman's name is Andrew Graham. He was chief fatlor or 

 governour of Church hill fort, belonging to the Hudfon's Bay company, and 

 their principal fettlement there, and was altogether twenty-five years in that 

 country, in different forts belongirig to that company. He fet out upon the 

 journey here mentioned the fourth of February 1773, from Severn river, in 

 latitude 56" lo' north, and travelled to Church-hill river, in latitude 58° 45*, 

 (which, by the circuit he was obliged to make, he computes to be a journey of 

 350 milts), in twenty days. There were three other Britifh men with him, and 

 their equipage was fix Indians, and four Newfoundland dogs, who pulled in a 

 fledge their luggage, confifting of beaver and blanket coverings, bifcuit, bacon, flour, 

 but no wine, beer, or fpirituous liquors, which Mr Graham did not choofe to carry 

 with him, becaufe he knew the Indians never would have been quiet till they had 

 drank them all. 'I heir drink was fnow water boiled, and cooled in fnow ; and the 

 Indians killed for them plenty of Game. They all arrived at the end of their jour- 

 ney in perfcft health j and Mr Graham fays he never had fuch a Itomach in his 

 life, nor ever flept better. He fays that they had not then any thermometer in the 

 fctilements of the Hudfon's Bjy company that could meafure the degree of cold in 



that 



