VOr.. XVIII,] VHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. GSQ 



unalterably set, (as the Indian religious are, by long continuing in strange pos- 

 tures in their Pagodas,) but most commonly such habit is contracted, that the 

 face falls insensibly into that posture, when some present object docs not obli- 

 terate that more natural impression by a new one, or dissimulation hide it; 

 hence it is, that we see great drinkers with eyes generally set towards the nose, 

 the adducent muscles bemg often employed to let them see their beloved liquor 

 in the glass, in the time of drinking; which were therefore called bibitory ; las- 

 civious persons are remarkable for the oculorum mobilis petulantia, as Petronius 

 calls it. From this also we may solve the Quaker's expecting face, v/aiting the 

 pretended spirit, and the melancholy face of the Sectaries; the studious face of 

 men of great application of mind; and the revengeful face of bloody men, like 

 executioners in the act: and though silence in a sot may a while pass for 

 wisdom, vet sooner or later Sir Martin peeps through the disguise, and marrs 

 all. A changeable face is observed to show a changeable mind. But I would 

 by no means have what has been said understood as without exception ; for I 

 doubt not but sometimes there are found men with great and virtuous souls, 



under unpromising outsides. 



yi Continuation of Mr. John Clay tori s Account of Virginia.* N° 210, p. 121. 

 There were neither horses, bulls, cows, sheep, nor swine, in all the country, 

 before the coming of the English. But now among the English inhabitants 

 there are plenty of horses. They never shoe them, nor stable them in general. 

 The Indians have not yet learned to ride. In the uninhabited parts there are 

 now wild bulls and cows, which have been bred from some that have strayed, 

 and become wild, and are difficult to be shot, having a great acuteness of 

 smelling. Their sheep are of a middling size, pretty fine fleeced in general, 

 and most persons of estate begin to keep flocks of them. There is plenty of 

 good red deer. They have swine now in great abundance ; shoats, or porkrels 

 are their general food ; and I believe as good as any Westphalia, certainly far 

 exceeding our English. Here are rackoons, opossums, hares, three sorts of 

 squirrels, (one of which is frequently eaten), musk, or water-rats, bats of two 

 sorts, some bears, whose flesh is eaten as pork, wild-cats and pole cats, beavers, 

 many wolves and foxes, numerous land and water-tortoises, frogs of several 

 sorts, one 8 or 10 times larger than those in England, called the bull-frog, 

 from its loud noise ; toads, lizards, and snakes of many sorts. 



* See Phil. Trans, No 201, 205, 206. 



