rn our heads, they often buy
up a monstrous bush of hair, which covers their heads, and falls down in
a large fleece below the middle of their backs, with which they walk up
and down the streets, and are as proud of it as if it was of their own
growth.

"We were invited to one of their public diversions, where we hoped to
have seen the great men of their country running down a stag, or pitching
a bar, that we might have discovered who were the persons of the greatest
abilities among them; but instead of that, they conveyed us into a huge
room lighted up with abundance of candles, where this lazy people sat
still above three hours to see several feats of ingenuity performed by
others, who it seems were paid for it.

"As for the women of the country, not being able to talk with them, we
could only make our remarks upon them at a distance. They let the hair
of their heads grow to a great length; but as the men make a great show
with heads of hair that are none of their own, the women, who they say
have very fine heads of hair, tie it up in a knot, and cover it from
being seen. The women look like angels, and would be more beautiful than
the sun, were it not for little black spots that are apt to break out in
their faces, and sometimes rise in very odd figures. I have observed
that those little blemishes wear off very soon; but when they disappear
in one part of the face, they are very apt to break out in another,
insomuch that I have seen a spot upon the forehead in the afternoon which
was upon the chin in the morning."

The author then proceeds to show the absurdity of breeches and
petticoats, with many other curious observations, which I shall reserve
for another occasion: I cannot, however, conclude this paper without
taking notice that amidst these wild remarks there now and then appears
something very reasonable. I cannot likewise forbear observing, that we
are all guilty in some measure of the same narrow way of thinking which
we meet with in this abstract of the Indian journal, when we fancy the
customs, dresses, and manners of other countries are ridiculous and
extravagant if they do not resemble those of our own.

THE VISION OF MARRATON.

_Felices errore suo_.--

LUCAN i. 454.

Happy in their mistake.

The Americans believe that all creatures have souls, not only men and
women, but brutes, vegetables, nay, even the most inanimate things, as
stocks and stones. They believe the same o