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are the effeâ:s of fuperftition, or of a faulty educa- 

 tion. The ferocious animals themfelves are ftruck 

 at fight of thefe deformities. All travellers uraixir 

 moully concur in their teftimony, that when lions 

 or tygers are famiflied, which rarely happens, and 

 thereby reduced to the neceffity of attacking cara- 

 vans in the night time, they fall firft upon the 

 beafts of burden, and next upon the Indians, or 

 the black people. The European figure, with it's 

 fimplicity, has a much more impofing efFedt upon 

 them, than when disfigured by African or Afiatiç 

 çharadlers. 



When it has not been degraded by the vices of 

 Society, it's expreffion is fublime. A Neapolitan, 

 of the name of John-Baptijle Porta, took it into his 

 head to trace in it relations to the figures of the 

 beafts. To this effedt, he has compofed a book, 

 pmbelliflied with engravings, reprefenting the hu- 

 man head under the forced refemblance of the 

 head of a dog, of a horfe, of a fheep, of a hog, and 

 of an ox. Hi? fyftem is fomewhat favourable to 

 certain modern opinions, and forms a very tolerable 

 alliance with the hideous changes which the paC- 

 fions produce in the human form. But I (hould 

 be glad to know after what animal Pigalk has co- 

 pied that charming Mercury which I have feen at 

 Berlin ; and after the paffions of what brutes the 

 iQrecian Sculptors produced the Jupiter of the Ca- 

 pitol, 



