civ. 
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and Indigirfea. M. Gmelin and the 4bbé D’ Auteroche affure us, that Pikes, Perch,. 
Ruffs, Carp, Bream, Tench, Crucians, Roach, Bleaks, and Gudgeons, are alfo 
met with in the Od, and different rivers of this country *. I cannot reconcile 
this to the former account given me by fo able a naturalift, to whom I owe this 
hiftory of the Arézc fifh. The Salmo Kundjha, Pallas Itm. iii. 706, abounds in 
the gulphs of the Jcy fea, but does not afcend the rivers; and the Pleurcnedtes 
Glacialis, Pallas Itin. iit. 706, is frequent on the fandy fhores. 
To review the inhabitants of the 4ric coafts, I fhall return as far as Fin- 
mark, I refer the reader to p. Lxx1x. for what I have faid of the Laplanders.. The 
Samoieds line the coafts from the eaft fide of the hte fea, as far (according to 
the Ruffian maps) as the river OJ, and even the Avabara, which falls into the Zcy 
fea in lat. 73. 30; and poflefs the wildeft of ccuntries inland, as low as lat. 65. 
After them fucceeds, to the eaft, a race of middle fize; and, extraordinary to fay, 
inftead of degeneracy, a fine race of men is found in the T/chut/ki, in a climate 
equally fevere, and in a country equally unproductive of the fupports of life, as 
any part of thefe inhofpitable regions. The-manners of all are brutal, favage, 
and nearly animal ; their loves the fame; their living fqualid and filthy beyond 
conception : yet on the fite of fome of thefe nations AZ@e/a hath placed the elegant 
Hyperborei :, and our poet, Prior, giving free loofe to his imagination, paints the 
manners of thefe Arétic people in the following beautiful fiction, after defcribing 
the condition of the natives of the torrid zone. 
And may not thofe, whofe diftant lot is caft 
North beyond Tartary’s extended Wafle ; 
Where, thro’ the plains of one continual day, 
Six fhining months purfue their even way, 
And fix fucceeding urge their dufky flight, 
Obfeur'd with vapors, and o’erwhelm’d in night; 
May not, I afk, the natives of thefe climes 
(As annals may inform fucceeding times) 
To our quotidian change of heaven prefer 
Their own viciffitude, and equal fhare t 
Of day and night, difparted thro” the year ? 
May they not fcorn our fun’s repeated race, 
To narrow bounds prefcrib’d, and little fpace, 
* Voy en Siberie, par Gmelin, i. 84, 89, 2416 
D'Auteroches i. 200. Engl, Ed. 231. 
Haftning from morn, and headlong driven from 
noon, 
Half of our daily toil yet fcarcely done ? 
May they not juftly to our climes upbraid 
Shortnefs of night, and penury of fhade ? 
That, ere our weary’d limbs are juftly bleft 
With wholefome fleep, and neceffary reft, 
Another fun demands return of -care, 
The remnant toil of yefterday to bear ? 
Whilft, when the folar beams falute their fight, 
Bold and fecure in half a year of light, 
Uninterrupted voyages they take 
To the remoteft wood, and farthelt lake ; 
li, 167, 170, 219.—Voy. en Siberie, par PALE 
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