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about them, in a country richly furnifhed with 

 wood, he would have fpoken of them in dif- 

 ferent language. Pliny's picture is in itfelf 



fo good, and is likewife fo excellent a contraft 

 to the fcenes, which we have juft examined, 

 that I think it worth inferting. I mall rather 

 give the general fenfe of the paffage, than an 

 exact tranflation of it. 



" This coaft, fays he, lies fo much lower 

 than the ocean, that the tides daily overflow 

 it. The inhabitants build their huts on little 

 eminences, which they either find, or con- 

 ftrud; on the mores ; and which ferve to raife 

 their dwellings juft above the water-mark. 

 Thefe dwellings, or rather cabins, when the 

 tide rifes, often feem like floating boats : and 

 when it retires, the inhabitants appear like 

 flranded mariners ; and their cottages like 

 wrecks. Their harveft is the ebbing of the 

 fea : during which they are every where feen 

 running about in queft of fifh ; and purfuing 

 them in each little creek of the more, as the 

 tide deferts it. They have neither horfe, nor 

 cow, nor domeftic animal of any kind -, and 

 as to game, they have not the leaft appearance 

 of a bum, to fhelter it. The whole employ- 

 ment of this wretched people is fifhing. They 



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