Book 10 — No. 10
Reading edition
A different cast the glowing zone demands, In Paria's blooms, from Tombut's burning sands.
Book II. Line 97.
Paria is a fertile country near the river Orinoco; the only part of the continent of America that Columbus had seen. Tombut, in the same latitude, is the most sterile part of Africa. America embraces a greater compass of latitude by many degrees than the other continent; and yet its inhabitants present a much less variety in their physical and moral character. When shall we be able to account for this fact?