ACCOUNT of a SINGULAR CUSTOM a METELIN, 
with fome CONJECTURES on the ANTIQUITY of is 
| ORIGIN. By the Right Honourable JAMES, Earl of 
| CHARLEMONT, Prefident R. I. A. 
"THOUGH the extreme beauty and amenity of the Grecian Read Dec. 
iflands, efpecially thofe on the Afiatick fide of the Egean fea, '” ne 
may render it difficult to make a choice among them, yet, if I 
were defired to declare a preference, I fhould probably fix on Me- 
telin, the ancient Lefbos.—This enchanting ifland, proud of the 
birth of Alceus and of Sappho, ftill retains thofe charms which 
gave rife and infpiration to their poetry; and though its groves 
no more refound with their facred ftrains, the caufe that infpired 
them ftill feems to exift, and love {till lingers in his favourite 
retreat.— 
Spirat adhuc Amor 
Vivuntque commifli Calores 
fEolize~ Fidibus Puellz ! 
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