#792." - from IsabeHa to Albert. 1S: 
they produce is inconceivable, On these occasions 
the noise they make, which is at all times.great, be- 
comes ten times greater; so that if a person who 
hhad never before seen this creature, was to look in- 
to.their den on: these occasions, he would certainly 
think. he had got into Pandemonium, where the de- 
‘vils were at work, contriving how they might most 
speedily spread desolation and destruction - around 
them; Fortunately this delirium does not last very 
jong, and the bodily powers become weakened in 
proportion as'the brain is inflamed. so that in a few 
hours the whole of this noisy tribe are entirely si- 
Jenced ; and they may be then seen lying, pell mell 
a-top of one another, wallowing in the most beastly 
state of intoxication and nastinefs. 
‘I have told you what these creatures like; you 
jhould also know what they dislike. They are as 
remarkable in their antipathies, as in their likings, 
They have a mortal ill will at books; and if ever 
they get accefs to a library, they tear out the leaves, 
and scatter them about, or apply them to the most 
ignoble purposes. Sometimes, indeed, if the book 
contains fhowy prints, especially if coloured, they 
‘will. run over these with a stupid kind of gaze; 
but, as Shakespeare says, ‘‘ There is no speculation 
in their eye.” Like children, they admire baubles, 
and throw the most precious jewels away. My 
heart has often bled at seeing the devastations that 
had been committed by one of these brutes, which 
Ahad accidentally got full pofsefsion of a library 
which had been carefully collecting for ages by a set 
of learned men. Ina fhort time, every thing that 
