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THE quantity of food required by a normal man de- pends not only upon his size, the greater amount of muscular work, but, in the first place, on the climate. A body exposed to a cool, bracing atmosphere, or to extreme cold demands an increased supply of food. The ravenous appetite noticed among the inhabitants of cold climates may be due in part to the fact that their food-supply is very irregular, as to make them eat to excess when supplied with food. According to Dr. Hayes, the arctic explorer, the daily ration of the Esquimaux, is from twelve to fifteen pounds of meat, about one-third of which is fat. The demand for fatty substances increases with the greater cold; hence the Esquimaux as all other inhabitants of the arctic regions, do hardly know anything drinkable but fatty bever- ages, such as cod-liver oil, sperm oil, etc., of which they use from four to five pounds daily. The temperate zones, varying very much in their temperature and moisture according to the different elevations, the greater or lesser distance from oceans, the greater or lesser exposure to warm and cold winds, require what we might name a general diet. People in the parts nearer to the tropics will regulate their diet in accordance with the rules prescribed for these, while those nearer to the arctic regions will have to