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over young, \w\i\\ . |T|.<-.timlly renewing itH youth, appears to 

 tin; inexperienced eyo to have no chan'ce, with its atriplin :; 

 force, against tho great old Goliath the desert, whose might has 

 never relaxed from the earliest days till now; but tho giant 

 han not Conquered it." Tho river \\\M completed it;; mighty 

 task ; as civilisation, in due time, will accomplish hers. MY. 



Climate and Character. 



The disposition of the animal seems not less marked hy tho 

 climate than tho figure. Both at tho Lino and tho Polo Hi-- 

 wild quadrupeds are fierce and untamcable. Africa has ever 

 boon remarkable for tho fierceness of its animals ; its lions and 

 its leopards are not loss terrible than its crocodiles and itH 

 serpents; their dispositions seem entirely marked with the 

 rigours of the climate ; and being bred in an extreme of heat, 

 they show a peculiar ferocity that neither tho force of man <M.M 

 conquer nor his arts allay. Tho food also is another cause in 

 the variety which we find in quadrupeds of the tame kind. 

 Thus tho boasts which feed in tho valley are generally much 

 larger than those which glean a scanty subsistence on the moun- 

 tain. Such as live in tho warm climates where tho plants are 

 much larger and more succulent than with us, arc equally re- 

 markable for their bulk. Tho ox fed in the plaint of Indoatan 

 in much 1,'i.r^c.r tlnui Mi;i.l. which i.; inon-. h;n!ily nm.iiiUiricd on 

 the sides of tho Alps. Tho deserts of Africa, whore tho plants 

 are extremely nourishing, produce the largest and fiercest animals. 

 Hut it is not only in tho cam? of the lower animals that wo see the 

 omnipotent influences of climate upon character, for those same 

 influences are observable in insinkmd. Tho colour, tho form, 

 the pursuits, tho habits, tho diseases, and tho religions of men are 

 often tho result of climate. This being so, we ought to correct 

 some of those bigoted, insular judgments which we are too 

 prone to pronounce upon tho ways of othor nations when they 

 differ from our own. A. 



The Effects of Climate on Intellect and Morals. 



It may startle to declare that tho intellect and even tho 

 morality of peoples have hitherto boon wonderfully affected by 



