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a climate of his own in every degree of latitude. The 

 arts of human ingenuity furnish a protection against 

 the endemic peculiarities of every region. Thus 

 we see the same nation pass with impunity into all 

 the countries of the world; winter near the pole, 

 and colonize beneath the tropics ; drain the pesti- 

 lential marsh, and clear the boundless forest; build, 

 like the eagle, on the lofty mountain, and burrow 

 in the lowly valley, deriving, by its ingenuity and 

 industry, the means of subsistence, of luxury, and 

 of splendour, from the steril rock, and the howling 

 wilderness. 



It is when we contrast this universal extension 

 of man over the earth, with the narrow limits as- 

 signed to other animals, that this his privilege be- 

 comes the most apparent. The Simiae are, for the 

 most part, confined within the tropics, and, even 

 within these boundaries, the range of each parti- 

 cular species is far from considerable. The Ameri- 

 can varieties and those of the old world are different 

 from each other. It is in vain to particularize any, 

 when all species are thus exclusively located. Ex- 

 ceptions, indeed, might be named in a few found more 

 extensively spread than others, but none of these are 

 found in both the new and old world. Transported 

 from their native seats, the individuals of the an- 

 thropomorphous tribes, soon lose their strength 

 and vivacity, rapidly degenerate, pine away, and 

 die. With the most careful management their ex- 

 istence can scarcely be secured for a time even in 

 our latitude, and their power of propagation ge- 



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