a from Isabella to Albert.. Now. Fa 
was valuable in it, was torn, lost, or destroyed; and 
nothing but garbage and trafh remained behind. 
‘ But if these creatures have an aversion to books; 
they have still a more decided antipathy to bookith 
men; especially thosein holy orders. They seemto pof- 
sefs a power of scenting them out, as dogs do game ; 
and they often ramble about in packs, in quest of 
them, with eagernefs, in the same manner as dogs 
do in quest of their natural prey ; and wo be to the 
unfortunate clergyman who chances to: fall in their 
way, at a distance from any afsistance! for although 
they do not tear him to pieces with their teeth, as 
other animals of a lefs ferocious appearance might 
do, they set up such a chattering of unintelligible 
gibberifh, and pursue him so closely wherever he 
goes, and at every fhort interval set up such a tre- 
menduous rear of a/sinine sounds, that the poor man), 
if he has never seen them before, is put into mortal 
terror. If, however, he has the prudence not to 
seem to hear or mind them, he may at last escape 
without harm ; for, like every foolifh animal, they 
tire of teazing, when they do not perceive that their 
exertions have a power to teaze. ‘This animal is, 
upon the whole, rather a stupid, noisy, and trouble- 
some creature, than desperately wicked ; and unlefs it 
be that they sometimes lay hold upon women in-lone 
places, and are rude to them, but which they scarce 
ever attempt unlefs they have been first provoked’ 
by the gigling or light behaviour of these women, 
they seldom actually hurt, unlefs by accidental ren- 
counter, any other creature. Indeed a firm minded 
man, of a philosophical turn, always overawes them, 
