The second region begins where the other terminates, and includes all the remainder of the continent.

The one slopes gently towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator.
The territory comprehended in the first region descends towards the north with so imperceptible a slope that it may almost be said to form a level plain.

Within the bounds of this immense tract of country there are neither high mountains nor deep valleys.

Streams meander through it irregularly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast marshes, losing all trace of their channels in the labyrinth of waters they have themselves created; and thus, at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas.

The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those in the Old World, between hills and rocks.