B20 different manners of mankind. Fuly 4. 
In two neighbouring Highland counties, too, there 
is as great a difference in temper and genius, as is 
ebservable between the»most distant provinces. The 
natives of Sutherland are much praised as a sober, 
peaceable, and well-behaved people; those af Caith- 
nefs, on the contrary, are said to be rough, disoblig- 
ing and quarrelsome ; but this is meant of the lower 
ranks ; for the better sort, and those of higher birth, 
are observed to be well-bred, hospitable, and soft in 
their manners. 
It is, indeed, impofsible to describe the number- 
lefs varieties of hunian temper and genius; and in 
smaller groups of mankind, although the differences 
are generally distinct and well marked, yet they of- 
ten run into one another with such imperceptible gra- 
dations, at other times crofs each other so oddly, 
that it is much more difficult to afsign the reason for 
such diversities, than in large states, Aree or 
empires. 
It is well known that the Georgian and Circafsian 
women, have been long famous for their extraordi- 
nary beauty. Why ‘Should one particular spot pro-, 
dace such crops of handsome women, as yearly store 
the seraglios and glut the appetite of the Grand 
Signior ? 
In like manner in Scetland, the Cathenesian wo- 
men are blest by nature with distinguifhed charms, 
both of person. and spirit. Some of them I have 
seen, with the most captivating graces. Though 
placed ‘at the extremity of our island, in a country 
-barren and marfhy, surrounded with rude mountains 
and @ stormy ocean, yet, in their manners, these nor- 
