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Tlie women, according to the universal disposition 

 of the fair sex, enjoyed visiting and dancing; and 

 I nuist say, that Caubvick attained to great per- 

 fection in that graceful accomplishment, during 

 her short stay. The men were best pleased with 

 sporting; the exquisite nose of the hound, which 

 could follow an animal by the scent, over an open 

 country or througli a thick wood, ahnost as swiftly 

 as he could have done had the creature been in 

 view, the sagacity and steadiness of the pointer, 

 and the speed of the greyhound, were matters of 

 great astonislmient to them. But above all, they 

 were most struck with the strength, beauty, and 

 utility of that piece of perfection in the brute crea- 

 tion, that noble animal, the horse. 



The face of the country did not pass unobserved 

 by them, and their expression was '' The land is 

 all made; " for they supposed that we had cut 

 down the woods, and levelled the hills. Li the 

 former supposition they were certainly I'ight; and 

 I do not wonder at the latter, since they would 

 naturally suppose that all the world was like the 

 small part of it which they had formerly seen; 

 and which is almost an entire collection of hills 

 covered with thick woods. As they had never 

 before seen any cultivated land (except a few 

 small gardens, which they observed were dug with 

 a spade) they formed an idcn <»!' <>iir immense 

 numbers, by being al)l(' t<» lill so much land and 

 consume the produce of it in ,i year; exclusive of 

 the ;niimal food with wliidi Ihey saw our tables 

 and iii.'ii'kets abounded. I low the inhabitants of 



