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human creatures treated with lefs than the efthonian 

 and livonian peafants. The 3d, 4th, and 5th, are 

 certainly ingenious and lignificant. They are a tiffue 

 of delicate fentiment, farcafm, and fimplicity. 



Shine, fhine, thou fun ! 

 Bright and chearful be the day ! 

 Shine, that we may be warm without cloth. 

 Drive with thy heat the linen afunder, 

 And make us to fweat without any cloaths* 

 Shine, fun, upon the perg 

 And upon the lilver beads : 

 The heat does not fpoil the perg. 

 Nor fair weather the gaudy beads ! 

 Shine not on the Germans at all, 

 But fhine on us for ever ! 



VI» The fummer is fhort in Efthonia. So early as 

 the middle of Auguft, heavy rains and bleak winds 

 frequently interrupt the hay- making. They are there- 

 fore obliged to toil with redoubled force at this em- 

 ployment on the fun-fhining days* If the boor were 

 free, and might call what he mowed his own, there 

 would be no need of having recourfe to coercion to in- 

 creafe the velocity of his arm. But a large plot of 

 ground is prefcribed him as a talk; "This muft be 

 ** mown to day, or there is no reft for thee/' The 

 overfeer ftands by him with the ftick in his hand, 

 which he lays plentifully on the backs of thofe, who, 



* Perg is the head-drefs of an unmarried woman, confining of a 

 circle of pafteboard, decorated with pieces of ftiks tied about with 

 artificial trefTes, and keeping the hair together. 



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