THE MONKEY FAMILY. 



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Franklin and his brave companions, after enduring 

 more than can well be conceived, sank to the 

 ground, each a " stiffened corse, stretched out, and 

 bleaching in the northern blast/' Poor noble 

 rovers, lost alas, for the ends of science ! — after all, 

 the benefit of a north-west passage, is but a thing 

 of emptiness. 



Leaving the frozen zones, we enter the two 

 temperate ones, which have equally with the frozen 

 zones, their millions of creatures both to shelter 

 and to feed. 



Still, even many of these, in certain localities, 

 are obliged to take their departure in autumn, to 

 reap the benefit of a warmer sun. Our birds of 

 passage so called, although apparently quite at 

 ease amongst us, suddenly leave Europe for six 

 months in the year, wending their way to Asia and 

 to Africa. 



In a word, the man who spends his time in 

 nature's field, will have innumerable facts to show, 

 that, food and shelter, as I have already observed, 

 are the two main inducements which instigate 

 animated nature to make its periodical movements ; 

 or, to remain, altogether in one locality, should 

 food and shelter be at their command. 



We now come to the torrid zone, which may be 

 aptly denominated the paradise of monkeys 



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