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REMARKS 



O N 



THE 



ARTS 

 AND 



SCIENCES 



the greater dramatic dances has already been defcribed, * and 



peculiarly connected with that 



from their clothes coUeded into long petticoats, 

 means think the excellence of the performance 



however fo much appears 



Lt they by no 



th 



fill 



the 



of the feet, as they carefully cover them 



graceful motion 



the motion of their hands and fing 



but 



the greatefl: dexterity 



d eleg 



they fhew in my opinion, 

 They have generally long 



fo that they 



well fliaped fingers, which are wonderfully pliant, 



with eafe bend them fo far back as to form with the reil of the hand 



a fegment of a circle, and in this attitude they move them 



with 



aftonifhing agility 



Th 



dance 



called Heenjah 



and the 



of the fingers Eore^ 



t? 



/ 



hips in a rotatory 

 they are leaning 



But befides this, they lliake their 

 both w^hen they arc {landing and when 



hold 



There 

 ther by 

 During 



^ 



are leaning proftrate on their knees and elbows, with a velocity 

 which excited our aftoniaiment, and this is named 

 are other dances wherein they ufe meafured fleps, 



* 



the hands and clap with theiii y which is called pa-ata 

 the various kinds of dances, they never fail to make wry mouths,, 

 which, in, our opinion, were the moft extravagant and difgracing 

 diflortions, inftead of being capable of giving the fpeaatoP ideas of 

 cefulnefs and harijiony : habit has taught them to fcrew the 



r 



u 



mouth 



■4 



- Sec Hawkefworth, vcUl. r. 264, and^G.orse. Forftcv's Voyage, vcL 1. p. 



399 



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