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fi-uit in great abundance. 



fome Hogs, fowls, and plenty of fifli> causes 



but they are the only nation who feemed not to be benefited by this 

 affluent and excellent food; nor could v/e afflgn the reafons of 



nts of the Weftern parts of 

 other food than what the fea 



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diminjihed 



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have doubtlefs no 



affords them, which is very precarious in fo high a latitude, 

 elpecially in ftormy weather. Of vegetables, they have only a 

 few berries -, which feems to indicate, that from time to time they 

 are diflrelTed, and their wretched appearance does not contradid it ; 



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their diminutive fize, and fmall thin legs and thighs rather 



prove 



that they are famiflied and flinted : nor can the half rotten pieces 

 of raw feals-fleih and fat be very falubrious and nutritive j which we 

 faw them devour with a voracity that did not indicate either the 

 abundance or the excellence of their provifions. 



Exercife in a moderate degree, is abfolutely neceffary to give the 

 yarious parts of the human frame, flrength and due confidence. 

 Inadtimty hinders the fecretion and circulation of the fluids, necef- 

 fary for the increafe of the body, and therefore caufes in young 

 people a weakly conilitution, and flaccid limbs, without fl:ability, 

 conflfl:ence, or vigour. Violent labour is equally hurtful \i\ regard 

 to the increafe of the body ; for too long an exertion of mufcular 

 fibres in young men caufes a rigidity, and entirely exhaufl:s the 



wretched objed:s, 



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