372 THE PHILOSOPHY 



nurferies, and indeed the whole fabrick, have fuch a dependence" On 

 each other, that the breaking of one arch generally pulls down two 

 or three. There is ano.her great obftacle to our refearches, namely, 

 the obflinacy of the foldiers, who, fays our author, ' fight to the 

 ' very laft, difputing every inch of ground fo well as often to 

 ' drive away the Negroes who are without flioes, and make white 



* people bleed plentifully through their ftockings. Neither can we 



* let a building fland fo as to get a view of the interior parts with- 



* out interruption ; for, while the foldiers are defending the out- 



* works, the labourers keep barricading all the way againft us, flop- 



* ping up the different galleries and paflages which lead to the vari- 



* ous apartments, particularly the royal chamber, all the entrances to 



* which they fill up fo artfully as not to let it be diftinguiftiable 

 ' while it remains molft ; and, externally, it has no other appearance 

 ' than that of a Ihapelefs lump of clay. It is, however, eafily found 



* from its fituation with refpeft to the other parts of the building, 

 ' and by the crowds of labourers and foldiers which furround it, who 

 ' fhow their loyalty and fidelity by dying under its walls. The roy- 



* al chamber, in a large neft, is capacious enough to hold many hun- 

 ' dreds of the attendants, befides the royal pair ; and you always find 

 ' it as full of them as it can hold. Thefe faithful fubjedts never 



* abandon their charge even in the laft diftrefs j for, whenever I took 



* out the royal chamber, and, as I often did, preferved it for fome 



* time in a large glafs bowl, all the attendants continued running in 



* one diredion round the king and queen with the utmoft folicitude, 



* fome of them flopping at the head of the latter, as if to give her 

 ' fomething. When they came to the extremity of the abdomen, 

 ' they took the eggs from her, and carried them away, and piled 



* them carefully together in fome part of the chamber, or in the 



* bowl under, or behind any pieces of broken clay which lay moft 

 *• convenient for the purpofe.' 



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