43^ ÎÎ0TE9. 



Cupid flioti}d be armed, not with a bow and à quiver, but wivri 

 a dagger. The dagger-handles in queftion, are two-valved fifh- 

 lliells, lengthened out into the form of a dagger-handle, the 

 name of which they bear. They are found in great abundance 

 along the ftiores of Isiormandy, where they bury themfelves in 

 the fand. 



(t^) Of thie fngvlar h faufv of their young 'Women. And perhaps 

 of the law-fuits, for which Normandy is famous, as that apple 

 was, originally, a preleiit of difcord. It might be pofiible to find 

 out a caufe Jefs remote of thefe fuits at Law, in the prodigious 

 number of petty jurifdiÔions, with which that province is filled, 

 in their litigious ufages, and efpecially in the European fpirit of 

 education, which fays to every man, fromi his childhood upward: 

 Bethefirfl. 



It v.-ould not be fo eafy to difcover the moral or phyfical 

 caufes of the fingularly remarkable beauty of the women of the 

 Pays de Caux, efpecially among the country girls. They have 

 blue eyes, a delicacy of features, a freftmefs of complexion, and 

 a fliape, which would do honour to the fineft ladies about Court. 

 I know but of one other canton in the whole kingdom, in which 

 the women of the lower chifies are equally beautiful. It is at 

 Avignon. Beauty there, however, prefents a ditfcrent charac- 

 ter. They have large, black, and foft eyes, aquiline nofes, and 

 the heads of Angelica Kctuffman. Till modern Philofophy think 

 proper to take up the queftion, we may allow the mythology ol 

 the Gauls to alligh a reafoh for the beauty of their young wo- 

 men, by a fable which the Greeks would not, perhaps, have 

 rejefted. 



(18) Tor-Tir. Perhaps it may be from the names of thofe 

 two cruel Gods of the North, that the word toruae is derived.- 



(ig) Inthejidcofarociallover-jih'.te. IMontmartre is meant, 

 Mms Marùs. It is well known that this rifing ground, dedi- 

 C'ited to Mats, whofe name it bears, is formed of a rocîc of 



plafter. 



