56 EASTERN HINDOO STAN. 



good effecfls of the climate : yet it would be intolerable was it 

 not for the regular refrefhing breezes and coohng fhowers that 

 come from the fea at ftated hours. Thefe happily arrive in 

 what is called the * Celeftial fummer,' when the fun is vertical, 

 and their neceffity the ftrongeft. The winds that pafs over 

 the land, come heated by their pafTage over the fands like the 

 air of the mouth of an oven. The night and day are here nearly 

 equally difparted, though not in the fame exadl divilion as 

 under the equator, yet, partly in that, and wholly in other re- 

 fpe6ls, fo as to vindicate the beautiful quotation from our cele- 

 brated Prior, vol. ii. p. 157- To make that paffage more clear, 

 I muft introduce the doubts of Solomon refpedling the habita- 

 bility of the frigid and torrid zones, according to the notions 

 which were held of them bythe antients. 



I -doubt of many lands, ifthey contain 

 Or herd of beaft, or colony of man. 

 If any nations pafs their deftin'd days 

 Beneath the neighb'ring fun's direder rays. 

 If any fuffer on the Polar coaft 

 The rage of A>-clos, and eternal froft. 



May not the pleafure of Omnipotence 

 To each of thefe fome fecret good difpenfe. 

 Thofe who amidft the torrid regions live, 

 May they not gales unknown to us receive j 

 See daily fliow'rs rejoice the thirfty earth. 

 And blcfs the flow'ry buds fucceeding birth ? 

 May they not pity us, cohdemn'd to bear 

 The various Heav'n of an obliquer fphere : 



While 



