238 
„ ? -Rnt time forbidding us to linger any longer 
™C“ ~™ ”» id ”” be 10 tte ” sl ‘ 
in 
(2.) The Islands of Polynesia. 
13 As the inexorable laws of space forbid my ent eri fig into 
details, I only observe 
Marsden, the greaVNew ^Zealand “™ a ^ ke wit]l a human 
in those islands that the eerp® ^ °^Pf ® f ^oab, the Fiji 
voice,* and that, with tion of ei f t save d persons,! 
Islanders preserve a T upward Islands clironicle a 
while the “J a ^ tants midst 0 f universal destruction, 
•hex iX wW 
But we must pass on to 
(3.) The Countries of Mongolia Propel. 
u. From 
the Mythology of the J ?! g ?he existence of a state in which 
Chinese cosmogony taught the ex ever ywhere. 
“ pure pleasure and perfect tranjuunty B ^ T £ e ieart 
There was neither n ’ 0 mixt ure of falsehood.” 
rejoiced m truth, an ■ j convu lsion of nature, in 
Afterwards there came a dread! shook 
which “ the pillars the waters unclosed 
to its foundations, and fe P ' . J awc j overflowed it. 
within its bosom burst foi altered their courses, and 
The sun was eclipsed, the p disturb ed.” Moreover, 
JVEi 5ST4 :;= ' Te 
SfSpt. Sr-CaftUooa , ..a a- a*— 
banished the eternal reason. f China, relates of 
15. Martimus,|| to0 ’ accord ing to ancient tradition, 
"fpli Itoarcta into the Physical History of MMM, vol. t. 
P ’ lib. i. p. 21. See also Faber’s Horn Mosaics ol. i p. HO- 
