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•are obliged, with the grcateft furprife, to acknowledge, that 

 thofehuge animals, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the lion and 

 the tiger, inhabiting. the fame woods, are flill vaftly his in- 

 feriors, and that the appearance of this fmall in feci:, nay, 

 his very found, though he is notfeen, occafions more trepi- 

 dation, movement, and diforder, both in the human and 

 brute creation, than would whole herds of thefe monftrous 

 animals collected together, though their number was in a 

 tenfold proportion greater than it really is. 



The neceflity of keeping my narrative clear and intelli- 

 gible as I proceeded, has made me anticipate the principal 

 particularities relating to this infect. His operations are 

 too materially interwoven with the hiflory of this country, 

 to be left apart as an epifode. The reader will find the * 

 defcription of its manners in that part of my hiflory which 

 treats of the Shepherds, and in feverai places throughout the 

 narrative he will meet with accounts of the confequences of 

 its wonderful influence. Providence, from the beginning 

 it would feem, had fixed its habitation to one fpecies of 

 foil, being a black fat earth, extraordinary ftuitful ; and 

 fmall and inconfiderable as it was, it feems 'from the firfl 

 to have given a law to the fettlement of the country. It 

 prohibited abfolutely thofe inhabitants of the fat earth, 

 called Mazaga, domiciled in caves and mountains, from en- 

 joying the help or labour of any beads of carriage. It de- 

 prived them of their flefh and milk for food, and gave rife 

 to another nation, whofe manners were jufl the reverfe of 

 the firfl. Thefe were the Shepherds, leading a wandering 



C c 2 life, 



* Vol. i. book 2. p. 388. 



