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weapons, with a degree of neatiiefs, ftrength, and conve- 

 nience for accomplilliing their feveral piirpofes. Their cliief 

 mechanical tool is formed exaftly after thu manner of our 

 adzes, and is made, as are alio the chifFel and goudge, of the 

 jafper already mentioned, or of a black, fmooth, and very 

 foHd (lone. But their mailer-piece feems to be carving, 

 which they ufe for various purpofes, even the moil trivial. 

 Their fubilitute for a knife is a ihell, a bit of flint or jafper : 

 and as an auger, they fix a (liark's tooth in the end of a 

 fmall piece of wood. Tiicy have alfo a fmall faw made of 

 fome jagged fiQies' teeth, iixed on the convex edge of a 

 piece of wood, nicely carved : but this, they fay, is only 

 ufed to cut up tlie bodies of their enemies whom they kill 

 in battle. No people have a quicker fenfe of injury done to 

 them, and none arc more ready to refent it. Their temper is 

 fufpicious and mlilrullful ; and they are fo difhoneft, that they 

 Ileal every thing upon which they can lay their hands. Sucli 

 conduA may be expected, where little fubordination exifls, 

 and where no man's authority feems to extend further than his 

 own family. Their public contentions are frequent, or rather 

 perpetual, and it appears, from their number of weapons, 

 and dexterity in ufing them, that war is their principal pro- 

 feffion. Thefe weapons are fpears, patoos, and halberts, or 

 fometimes Hones. The firll are made of hard wood, pointed, 

 from five to twenty, or even thirty feet in length. The 

 fhort ones are uf;d for throwing as darts. The " pa- 

 too," or " emeete," is of an elliptical fhape, about eighteen 

 inches long, with a handle made of wood, ilone, the bones 

 of fome fea animal, or green jafper, and feems to be their 

 principal dependence in battle. The halbert, or long club, 

 is about five or fix feet long, tapering at one end with a 

 carved head, and at the other broad or flat, with fltarp 

 edges. Before they begin t'he onfet, they join in a war-fong, 

 to which they all keep the exatleil time, and fome raife 

 their paflion to a degree of frantic fury, attended with the 

 moll horrid dillortion of thier eyes, mouths, and tongues, 

 to Itrike terror into their enemies : which, to thofe who 

 have not been accultoniedto fuch a pratlice, makes them ap- 

 pear moi-e like demons tlian men, and would almoft cliill the 

 boldefl: with fear. To this fucceeds a circumftance, almofl; 

 foretold in their fierce demeanour, horrid, cruel, and dif- 

 graceful to human nature ; whicli is, cutting in pieces, even 

 before they are perfectly dead, the bodies of their enemies, 

 and, after dreffing them on a fire, devouring tiie flefb, not 

 only without reluctance, but with peculiar fatisfaftion. 

 And yet ';hefe favages lament the lofs of their friends, with a 

 ' violence of expreflion, which indicates the moft tender re- 

 membrance of them. The children are initiated, at a very- 

 early age, into all the praftices, good and bad, of their fa- 

 thers. They not only join in the war-fong, but they like- 

 wife fing, with fome degree of melody, the traditions of their 

 forefathers, their aftions in war, and other indifferent fub- 

 jecls ; of all which they are immoderately fond, and fpend 

 much of their time in thefe amufements, and in playing on a 

 fort of flute. Their language is far from being harfli or dif- 

 agreeable, though the pronunciation is frequently guttural ; 

 and whatever qualities are rcquifite in any other language to 

 make it mufical, certainly obtain to a confiderable degree 

 here, if we may judge from the melody of fome forts of 

 their fongs. It is alfo fufficieutly comprehenfive, though, 

 in many refpt-fts, defic-.-nt, if compared witli our European 

 languages, wliich owe their perfedtion to long improvement. 

 Mr. Anderfon has given a fpecimea of it. (Cook's Third 

 Voyag,-, vol. i. ) Li tlie year 1770 Capt. Cook left among 

 the inhabitants a boar and two lows, witii fome vegetables for 

 cultivation. In 1773 he faw one of the fows, and under- 

 ftood that the otiier and the boar were both living. The 



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(heep and goats did nut fucceed ; the latter having been 

 killed by one of the natives, and the ram having ran into the 

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Queen's, the middle county of Long ifland. New York, 

 about 30 miles long, and 12 broad, containing fix towiv 

 (hips, and 19,336 iniiabitants. Jamaica, Newtown, Hamp- 

 ftead, in which is a handfome court-lioufe, and Oyller bay, 

 are the principal towns in this county. 



Queen's, a county of Nova Scotia, comprehending a 

 part of the lands on the cape, on the S. fide of the bay of 

 Fundy. Tlie fettlements are as follow ; wz. Argyle, on 

 the S. fide of the bay of Fundy, where a few Scots and 

 Arcadiaas refide : next to this is Yarmouth, fettled chiefly 

 by emigrants from New England ; Barrington, within the 

 ifland, called cape Sable, fettled originally by Quakers from 

 Nantucket. Befides thefe are Port Raifoir, fo called by the 

 French, and originally fettled by the North Iri(h ; Liverpool 

 and Rofeway, fettled and inhabited by emigrants from New 

 England. 



QaEEN-'j Courtly, a county of Ireland, ellablifhed in the 

 reign of the firll Mary, which comprehended the old dif- 

 trift of Leix. Botli the county and chief town, Mary- 

 borough, received their names in compliment to the fove- 

 reign. It is fituated on the S.W. of Kildare, from which 

 it IS partly divided by the river Barrow, and is of a very 

 compaft form, being 25 Irifh (nearly 32 Englifli) miles in 

 length, and as many in breadth. Tlie fuperficial contents 

 are about 235,300 acres, or 367 fquare miles, equal to 

 378,023 acres, or about 590 fquare miles Engli(h. There 

 are 50 parifhes, 26 only of which have churches, and a po- 

 pulation of 82,000 according to Dr. Beaufort, and about 

 90,000 as the medium of various calculations. The high 

 and deep mountains of Sliebh-bloom (called alfo Ard-na- 

 Erin, which in the Irifh language fignifies the height of 

 Ireland) form fo impraclicable a birrier between the King's 

 and Queen's counties, that in a range of fourteen miles they 

 afford but one, and that a very difficult and narrow pafs into 

 the King's county, called tlie " Gap of Glandine." In 

 this great ridge are the fources of the Barrow and the 

 Nore ; the Barrow running N.E. to Monaftierevan, where 

 it changes its direction to the S., and the Nore croffing the 

 Queen's county by a fouthern courfe into Kilkenny. The 

 Dyfart hills in the eaftern divifion are confpicuous and pic- 

 turefque. Handing rather fingly than connefted. From thefe 

 eminences, through the villas formed by their particular 

 fituation, is commanded the view of a fine and beautiful 

 country, higiily adorned with rich plantations and magni- 

 ficent demefnes. The rell of the county is rather flat, but 

 lies high. The whole is watered with rivers and numerous 

 mountain dreams, and according to fir Charles Coote, its fu- 

 perficial appropriations may be thus eftimated. 



Acr«^s. 



Arable lands, paflure, and meadow 210,000 



Woods and plantations - 1,300 



Water . - . i,cco 



Bog, mountain, and wade - 21,000 



Roads . . - 2,000 



235,300 



The map belonging to the grand jury, reckons 244,938 

 acres, and of thefe 60,000 bog and mountain. 



Almod every d.fcription of loil is found in this county, and 

 it varies from a very diff clay to a fandy loam, which, though 

 light, is yet fertile ; a ilrong gravelly foil, very favourable 

 to corn, is alio prevalent. Lime-ftone is fo common, that 

 there are rich quarries of it in almoll every townland. The 



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