. Peter Parley's tales about Asia : with a map and numerous engravings. st ofthe religions, which have exerted an extensiveinfluence over mankind, have had their origin. It would certainly be interesting and instruc-tive to go back, and study what has passed inregions so celebrated as these. But all thisis too extensive a field for me to enter will find in larger books than mine thewhole story, and as soon as you can, I adviseyou to read it. I should have been glad tohave given you a more particular account ofSiberia. Not many travellers have visitedthat cold region, but our curiosity
. Peter Parley's tales about Asia : with a map and numerous engravings. st ofthe religions, which have exerted an extensiveinfluence over mankind, have had their origin. It would certainly be interesting and instruc-tive to go back, and study what has passed inregions so celebrated as these. But all thisis too extensive a field for me to enter will find in larger books than mine thewhole story, and as soon as you can, I adviseyou to read it. I should have been glad tohave given you a more particular account ofSiberia. Not many travellers have visitedthat cold region, but our curiosity is excitedin proportion to the difficulty of gratifying it. Along the southern parts bordering uponTartary, the Siberians resemble the the northern parts, the people are veryshort, not being taller than the shoulders of aman among us. They live like the Lapland-ers, depending upon reindeer chiefly for theirsubsistence, and for most of their comforts. At the northeastern extremity of Asia, is a What can vou tell of the Siberians! PARLEY S TALES OF KAMSCADALES. 116 parleys tales op ASIA. great peninsula, called Kamskatcha. The in-habitants are called Kamskadales. They livepartly beneath the earth, in mud cabins, andsubsist to a great extent on the products ofthe sea. Near the termination of this peninsula, aresome of the most sublime mountains in theworld. They rise suddenly from the plains,to the height of nearly four miles. Theirpeaks are always covered with snow, and seve-ral of them being volcanic, and in constant ac-tivity, light up this cold and desolate extremityof the eastern continent, with terrific splendor. I must now bid you farewell. If I shouldfind time, and my little hearers should mani-fest a desire to hear from their talkative OldFriend, I may perhaps, at some future time,tell them some stories about the Islands of thePacific Ocean, and some Tales of the Sea. What of Kamskatcha? What mountains at the southern extremifyl ^
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