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nevertheless display considerable ingenuity when 

 stimulated by necessity; as well as great strength, 

 activity, and courage, when difficulties or dangers 

 call for the occasional exercise of those qualities. 

 Providence, in withholding from the people of 

 these northern countries the many blessings enjoy- 

 ed by the inhabitants of more temperate regions, 

 has given them a contented disposition : and so 

 strongly are they attached to their native land, 

 consisting in general of immense tracts of moun- 

 tains and morasses, that they cannot reconcile 

 themselves to any other situation, or to a residence 

 in a different part of the world. 



Questions. 



What are the countries inhabited by the Polar race? 



Which are the principal nations of this race 1 



Are they tall or short ? 



How do they look ? 



What is their complexion 1 '< 



How are they chiefly employed 1 



