(578 ANNUAL REGISTER, 18J0. 



This past, a public lustration of 

 themselves and offspring must 

 take place previous to tlieir being 

 again admitted to the society of 

 their relatives and friends. 



These Indians may in one re- 

 spect be thought to resemble the 

 improvisatori of some other coun- 

 tries. Their metrical eff"usions 

 being entirely spontaneous, and 

 usually thrown into a kind of 

 measure, which, if it be rude and 

 uncultivated, possesses, neverthe- 

 less, something peculiarly soft and 

 plaintive to recommend it. The 

 subjects which excite their verse 

 are chiefly of the latter descrip- 

 tion. 



In a political point of view, an 

 alliance with the Mosquito In- 

 dians can be considered but of re- 

 lative importance. Theyhold little 

 pretension to the character of war- 

 like, the last quality, however, 

 that humanity might wish to con- 

 template them in ; nor are there 

 any advantages of a commercial 

 nature resulting from such connec- 

 tion. The implacable enmity they 

 have ever borne towards one na- 

 tion, our frequent foe, from what 

 cause it may be unnecessary to in- 

 quire, is perhaps the best claim 

 they can offer for the extension of 

 our friendship. 



This nation cannot number at 

 the utmost more than 1,500 or 

 2,000 men capable of using arras. 

 Immediately contiguous to it are 

 two other tribes, called the Foyers 

 and the Towkcas. These people 

 are more numerous, and consi- 

 dered much more enterprisingand 

 brave, although they are tributary 



to the former, and have been so 

 from time immemorial. The ac- 

 knowledgment of this dependance 

 is expressed by the annual pay- 

 ment of a certain number of cat- 

 tle. But neither the Foyers or 

 Towkcas possess any thing like 

 the civilization of the Mosquito 

 people. Hence, unquestionably, 

 the cause and continuance of their 

 vassalage. 



Account of Salt Works at Nampi- 

 wich in the County of Chester. 



[From Messrs. Lysoiis* Magna Britannia.] 



Mr. Webb, in his Itinerary of 

 Cheshire, printed in King's Vale- 

 Royal, speaking of Nantwich, and 

 the excellency of the cheese made 

 in the neighbourhood of that town, 

 says, ' notwithstanding all the 

 trials that our ladies and gentle- 

 women make in their dairies in 

 other parts of the county, and 

 other counties of the kingdom ; 

 yet can they never fully match 

 the perfect relish of the right 

 Nantwich cheese ; nor can, I 

 think, that cheese be equalled by 

 any other made in Europe, for 

 pleasantness of taste and whole- 

 someness of digestion, even in the 

 daintiest stomachs of them that 

 love it.' Fuller, in his Worthies, 

 speaking of Cheshire, says, ' this 

 county doth afford the best cheese 

 for quantity and quality, and yet 

 their cows are not (as in other 

 shires) housed in the winter;* so 

 that it may seem strange that the 

 hardiest kine should make the 



* The cows in Cheshh-e are now housed in the winter, although they are not in 

 many other counties, and in some districts much celebrated for the excellency of 

 their cheese, as the Vale of Gloucester, North-Wiltshire, and Berkshire. 



