CHARACTERS. 
veil shews their shape to disadvan- 
tage, the legs are awkwardly con- 
cealed by the boots, and evenwith- 
ou: them, their movement is not so 
elegantly easy as that of their arms: 
which may be the reason that they 
appear to most advantage when sit- 
ting on the divan. 
The transient manner in which 
the Turkish women can only be 
seen by a stranger renders it difficult, 
if not impossible, to speak decidedly 
of their beauty, in comparison 
with that of the women of other 
‘countries, who are seenwith more 
familiarity. Their dress and veil, 
which are so disadvantageous to 
their shape, may perhaps (the latter 
particularly) be of advantage to 
their looks. I have had occasion to 
see great numbers, and thought 
them, in general, handsomer than 
the Christian and Jewish ladies ; but 
I was sometimes inclined to doubt 
whether that opinion might not, in 
some degree, be ascribed to seeing 
- them partially, or when revealed in 
such a manner, as to give relief to 
their beauty : it is certain that many, 
whose faces I had at first thought 
exquisitely fiue from under a loose 
veil, lost considerably when more 
exposed. 
Account of the Republic of San Mu- 
rino. By Dr. Gillies, Author of 
the History of Greece ; from Se- 
r¥15 
ward’s Anecdotes of distinguished 
Persons, &c. 
T the distance of twelve miles 
from Rimini and the Adriatic 
Sea, we beheld a cloud-capt moun- 
lain, steep, rugged, and inhospita- 
ble, yet to Britons, whose affection 
for their own happy island cherished 
even the faintest image of congeni- 
al liberty, more attractive and more 
engaging than all the gay luxuriance 
of Tuscan* plains. A black ex- 
pansion of vapour partly concealed 
from our view, the territory of what 
theGreeks would have called a na- 
tion, seldom visited ‘by strangers, 
though, assuredly most deserving of 
that honour. Liberty brightens and 
fertilizes the craggy rocks of St. 
Marino; and instead of paradises 
inhabited by devils (for thus the re- 
collection or supposition of better 
times indignantly characterizes the 
countries through which we had © 
just travelled,) this little state, we 
were told, would exhibit rugged 
hills and savage precipices cultiva- 
ted and adorned by the stubborn in- 
dustry of free men, who labour with 
alacrity, because they, reap with se- 
curity. We panted at the thoughts 
of taking a nearer” survey of this 
political’ wonder, and were impa- 
tient to leave Rimini; but the coun- 
try adjacent to that city was deluged 
with rain; the rivers continued to 
overflow; horses could not safely 
* The epithet, Tuscan, is justified by the authority of Polybius, |. ii.c. 14, and 
CG. il. 
He describes that extensive plain bounded by the Alps, the Appenines, 
and the Adriatic, and also the plains about Mola and Capua, called the Phle- 
_ grean Fields, as anciently inhabited by the Tuscans. The territory of this people, 
he says, formed incomparably the finest portion of Europe. 
Before Polybius 
wrote his history, the dominion of the Tuscans had contracted to a narrow span; 
and, according to the saying of the modern Italians, while the Pope posseses the 
marrow, the great duke of Tuseany has only the bones of Italy. 
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