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'I'll'' I/ipland'T; inli:il)it tin-, nor! 1 lernmost coasts of 

 Mi. Scandinavian peninsula, They aro ignorant, uncultivated, 



:iinl fiif/n'i/ r;illi' r tli.ui ln:pile<,f Iheir friMjuont con- 



1;id, with MM- Russian ; and I In- Swede,;, they h;ivr, no industrial 



resources, no ml, no other commerce, than tln.1- which is afforded 

 by tho productH of the chase, of their fisheries, or their herds 

 of reindeer. Christianity, to which they wore converted about 

 two ceniurios ago, has not aroused them as yet from their 

 ni'.i;d :uid Intellectual lethargy. All religion being reduced, so 

 l.ir :i : Iliey aro concerned, to oral tradition, the devotion of each 

 i in proportion to his memory. Education among them has 

 attained to this standard, that a Laplander who knows his 

 alphabet corresponds to a young man among us who has 

 i;i.iduatod at Oxford or Cambridge. D. 



How to Inaugurate a Colony wisely. 



At cerlam period. i of UK; year l,hc, penguins assemble on MM- 

 beach as if they preoonoertftdly met for deliberation. Theso 



a .end. In'. |;i ,|, I'm- a. day or two, and are conducted with an 



obvious degree of solemnity. When the meeting results in a 



d<< i i on, 1 1 iey proceed to work with groat activity. Upon a 

 ledge of rock, sufficiently level and of the necessary size, thoy 

 trace ;, . ,|ii;uv \\iih one of its sides parallel and overlooking tho 

 edge of the, water, which is loft open for the egress of the 

 colony. Then with their beaks they proceed to collect all tho 

 itonei in 1 1 10 neighbourhood, which thoy heap up outside tho 

 line/, marked out, to : .1 -i -ve tliem as a wall to shelter thorn from 

 Hi' 1 pivvailiii;; wind:;. 'I'hoy afterwards divide tho enclosure 

 into smaller squares, each largo enough to receive a certain 

 niind'er of nests, with a passage between each square. No 

 architect could arrange tho plan in a more regular manner. 

 \Vli:it is most singular is that tho albatross, a bird essentially 

 > ''rial and ad.iphd I'm- Might, associates at this period with those 

 I'd!' li h, hall' l.irdn, the penguins; so that tho nest of an 

 ill' iti" may bo seen next tho nest of a penguin, and tho 

 whole roN.iiy, so dill'eivnlly constituted, appears to live on tho 

 best terms of intimacy. Each keeps its own nest Other left* 

 li ids come to partake of tho hospitality of tho little republic. 



