STUDY VII. 7 



their fkins. I have feen in Malta, in a tomb hewn 

 out of the folid rock, the fkeleton of a Carthagi- 

 nian, all the bones of which were violet-coloured, 

 and which had, perhaps, lain there from tiie days 

 of Qiieen Dido. All thefe bodies were of the 

 common fize. Enlightened and fober- minded Tra- 

 vellers have reduced to a ftature hardly exceeding 

 our own, the pretended gigantic form of the Pa- 

 tagonians. I am aware that I have elfewhere al- 

 leged thefe ftme reafons ; but it is impofiible to 

 repeat them too frequently, becaufc they overturn, 

 beyond the pofiibility of contradidion, the pre- 



Guancho was depofited in a cavity adapted to it's fize, hewn 

 out of the rock. The Hone being of a porous nature, the ani- 

 mal juices were abfoibed, or filtered through, and the folid 

 parts, with theirnatural flvinny mantle, became indurated, by a 

 procefs of natural embalming, to fuch a degree as to refill the 

 future aiïaults of time. They are fti 11 exhibited, by tlie natives 

 of thofe iilands, to ftrangers who vifit them, with emotions of 

 pride and veneration ; as the images of their illuilrious ancef- 

 tors were oftentatioufly difpiayed by the Patrician families of 

 Rome. Avarice has, however, infefted the Canaries, as well as 

 more enlightened Klands; and families have been prevailed oa 

 to part with their Gmvichcs to the Mufeums of European Collec- 

 tors of Curiofities, for a little ready money, or in confideratioii 

 of a large order of wines. 



— — Quid non mortalia peflora cogis, 

 Auri facra fames ! 



in plain Englifli, The love of money ivlll make a man Ji-ll his 

 father, H. H. 



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