" mother's womb, since he robbed Jupiter of his vert/ 

 " Lightning. This Book then goes on to furnish all sorts 

 " of maxims for enabling the young men to rob and cheat 

 " — to pick a lock — to unbar a door without making a 

 " noise — to extract without detection the contents of 

 " purses and money-boxes — and stoutly to deny what they 

 "have just been doing." 



One large tract of this country is called Plagiana or 

 the Land of Plagiarists, in which is the City of Rigattiera, 

 (of Regrators) with the Hill of Scapula impending over it. 

 This City is not built with new materials, but with those 

 filched from other towns.* 



Here our Traveller finds many ancient remains of 

 Literature — especially in the department ofpoetry, and 

 is thus enabled to refer to their real authors many pas- 

 sages commonly supposed to be the productions of Homer, 

 Virgil, and other celebrated writers. 



" The province of Codiciaf is inhabited by that mon- 

 " strous race of men, whom Munster and Mandeville des- 

 " cribe as having the faces of swine. Like quadrupeds, 

 " they always walk with the face downwards, lest any tiling 

 " worth picking up should escape them, and their voice 

 " resembles grunting rather than speaking. This country 

 " appears inhabited by old men — the young men, if of an 

 "enterprising turn, betaking themselves to the Forest of 

 " Butince (Butinia) — if studious, to the school of Bolsecium 

 " (Cut-purse). Mining, Agriculture, and Merchandise are 

 " the only trades that are exercised — and the persons 

 " following them, like the ravenous Wolf or the starving 

 " Fox, feed upon earth. Some indeed there are who subsist 

 "solely by looking upon their metallic hoards. They 



* The infamous robbery which Scapula had recently committed upon 

 the Author of the Greek Thesaurus, was at this time the subject of just 

 indignation among the learned. 



+ The Land of Avarice. 



