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with his bargain, they will go and buy it again at a high 

 price. Their laws are only for a year, and their habits and 

 rules of life are equally unstable, their maxim being that 

 "second thoughts are best." The following inscription 

 appears on the sepulchre of one Vortunius, on the road 

 side : — 



" Traveller ! stop — read — and be off ! Here lies Andr. 

 " Vortunius, neither a slave, nor a soldier, nor a physician, 

 " nor a fencing-master, nor a cobler, nor a thief, nor a law- 

 " yer, nor an usurer, but all of these. Neither did he live 

 " in the town, nor in the country, nor at sea, nor on the 

 " land, nor here, nor there, but every where. Neither did 

 " he die through starvation, or poison, or sword, or rope, or 

 " disease, but through all. This monument, being neither 

 " a stone, nor a mound, nor a mausoleum, but all, has been 

 " erected neither by his debtor, nor his heir, nor his relative, 

 " nor his neighbour, nor his friend, but by all, in good will 

 •' neither to thee, nor to him, nor to me, but to all." 



The limits prescribed to us will scarcely permit even a 

 cursory review of the other subdivisions of Moronia, in the 

 description of which our author holds up folly in all its 

 phases to ridicule and contempt. He tells us that Pazzi- 

 villa, the capital city of the entire province, is situated partly 

 in a swampy bog, and partly on the steep side of a moun- 

 tain, far from any pleasant wood or river, so that the ele- 

 vated portion supplies the lower with snow, while the valley 

 yields plenty of stagnant water to the higher part. The 

 market-place is situated at the very summit of the hill, 

 being the head (as it were) of the city. This occasions 

 stupendous toil to the porters, especially in rolling up great 

 casks of wine or ale, so that you may see perhaps a hundred 

 of these Sysyphuses, who, after they have, with immenset oil, 

 almost reached the top, are encountered and driven back by 

 other casks which have broken loose. Every one of the 

 houses is without foundation, inasmuch as it is better (they 



