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the rest of the face was of the ordinary conforma- 

 tion. At the bottom of the drawing an inscrip- 

 tion in Italian informs you that this child was born 

 at the village of Monte Alegra, in Mercia, Ja- 

 nuary 5 ;, 1775 ; but the inscription did not bear, 

 and no one could inform me, whether the being 

 endowed with such an excess in the organ of vi- 

 sion, lived long. 



We had just left a city rendered noisy by the 

 multitude of carriages. Here it is no disgrace to 

 walk, and horses and chariots do not rattle about 

 through the streets, to the annoyance of citizens 

 on foot. The grand master alone used a carriage 

 with six horses, and he scarcely ever employed it, 

 except in riding to his country-seat. The officers of 

 the order, and other inhabitants, had, for the same 

 purpose, chaises drawn by a single mule, which a 

 man led by a leathern thong ; a sage precaution, 

 and worthy of being imitated, wherever the safety 

 of man is attended to in preference to the giddiness 

 of luxury, the bustle of which, in populous cities, 

 is a continual subject of apprehension, and some- 

 times an instrument of death to the modest and 

 useful citizen. It were to be wished that an equal 

 security were there provided against the dangers 

 incurred in offering sacrifices to Venus, from the 

 multitude of her priestesses who flock thither from 

 all parts. They are the refuse of all nations ; and 



their 



