1792. on animal and vegetable food. rTy 
force, cannot perform so much as a single Rufsian, 
Again, if you take one of equal size with a Rufsian, 
you will find him much lighter, or lefs solid~and 
compact than the Rufsian. Boys at an age, when a- 
mong the latter, one can scarcely lift with both 
hands, we may easily, among the Burets, take them 
up with one hand from the ground, and hold them sus- 
pended in the air. A proportionable lightnefs is seen 
likewise in grown persons ; for when a Rufsian has 
rode his horse quite jaded, the beast will directly set 
off again, if mounted by a Buret. And tiese effemi- 
nate, feeble, and light Bureets, like the rest of the Si- 
berian pagans, live almost entirely on animal food, 
the constant and unqualified use whereof, (as Mr Pal- 
Jas likewise thinks, ) may easily be considered as the 
cause of this very weaknefs and unsolidity of the 
Burets and their brethren. 
As little now as the frequent use of animal nou- 
rifhment produces strength and courage, so little is 
the eating of vegetable food connected with weaknefs 
and cowardice. Just in the very times of the great- 
est simplicity, manlinefs, and valour, the Greeks and 
Romans fed almost.entirely on an artlefs porridge *; 
and a similar diet, or even nothing but bad bread, is 
‘still the nourifhment of almost all the Sclavonian na- 
tions in Europe, and of many of the inhabitants of I- 
taly +; and yet these people are to be clafsed with 
those that aremostconspicuous for muscular strength. 
* Pliny, lib. xviii. cap. 7. Aristot: politic. lib. vii. cap. ro. Goguet, 
tom. iii..ch,~3. art x Valerius Maximus lib. ii: chap. 2. 5. 
+ Von Taube, tom. i. p. 64. Sultzer, tom. ii, p. 370. Schintay 
tom. i. p. 1593 
