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..but few among the eaftern nations, which 

 I have feen, either crooked or deformed. 

 This, Sir, you obferved, no doubt, whea 

 at Conftantinople, and other places of this 

 empire. Their following nature more 

 than we do, may alfo conduce much ta 

 the ftrength of the body ; for they never 

 force it into fhapc by bandages and whale- 

 bone, but leave nature to finifli and per- 

 fe(5l her own work. 



In my laft from Rome, I acquainted 

 you of my intentions of going into Greece 

 and Alia Minor, by the way of Otranto, 

 Corfry, and fo on. I was joined at Rome 

 and Naples by MelTrs Skipwith, Wilibra- 

 ham, and Fitzgerald. As we made fome. 

 flops in our way to Otranto, we did not 

 leave Italy till the 7th of February. That 

 part of the kingdom of Naples which is 

 on this fide of the Apennines, is both fer- 

 tile and pleafant ; but the people are fo 

 wretchedly poor, that it feems to be in- 

 habited by beggars, numbers of whom 

 followed us from every village for chari- 

 ty. They feemed, by their difeafed bo- 

 dies and flarved looks, to be in extreme 



poverty 



