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the mhabitants are pure, and their countenances unclouded. 
Servitude, which degrades the countries watered by the Pe- 
neus, has not yet afcendcd to thefe hills: no Turk can refide 
or live among thefe people ; and they govern themfelyes, like 
their anceftors, by their protoyeros and helt own magiftrates. 
_ Twice have the favage muffulmans of Lariffa, envious of their 
eafe and happinefs, attempted to fcale their mountains in 
order to plunder their houfes; and twice have they been re- 
pulfed by hands which fuddenly quitted the fhuttle to affume 
the mufket. 
All hands, and even thofe of the children, are employed 
in the dye-houfes of Ambelakia; and while the men dye the 
cotton, the women are {pinning and preparing it. The ufe 
of wheels is not known in this part of Greece ; all the cotton 
is fpun on a diftaff: the thread, indeed, is certainly not fo 
round or equal, but it is fofter, more filky, and more tena- 
cious; it is lefs apt to break, and lafts longer ; it is alfo more 
eafily whitened, and more proper for being dyed. It is a 
pleafing {pectacle to fee the women of Ambelakia, each fpin- 
ning from a diftaff, and fitting converfing together on the 
threthold of their doors; but as foon as a ftranger appears, 
they inflantly retire and conceal themfelves in their houfes, 
manifefting, like Galatea, in their precipitate retreat, a defire 
of flying and of thewing themfelves :— 
, Et fugit ad falices, et fe cupie ante vide:i. 
The eye can only have a curfory view of the fhape of fome 
of thefe women}; but it till obferves, with furprife, thofe 
flender and graceful forms of the ancient Grecian females, 
which ferved as models to the mof beautiful ftatues in the 
world. 
V. An Account of the Wild Horfes in Spanifh America. 
By D. Ferrx Azara*, 
I HESE animals were originally carried from Spain by 
the firft ¢onquerors, and are of the Andalufian breed. They 
* From a work, not yet publithed, on the natural hiftory of Paraguay, 
by Don Felix Azara, brother of the late Spanith ambaffador at Paris. 
This extract is tranflared from the Decade Philofophique, No. 9, year 8. 
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