1 86 Mr. smeathman’s Account of 
into the hill, and very foon after the labourers appear loaded as 
at firft, as adlive and as fedulous, with foldiers here and there 
among them, who a<ft juft in the fame manner, one or other 
of them giving the fignal to haften the bufinefs. Thus the 
pleafure of feeing them come out to fight or to work alter- 
nately may be obtained as often as curiofity excites or time 
permits : and it will certainly be found, that the one order never 
attempts to fight, or the other to work, let the emergency be 
ever fo great. 
We meet vaft obftacles in examining the interior parts of 
thefe tumuli. In the firft place, the works, for inftance, 
the apartments which furround the royal chamber and the 
nurferies, and indeed the whole internal fabric, are moift, 
and confequently the clay is very brittle : they have alfo fo 
clofe a connexion, that they can only be feen as it were by 
piece-meal ; for having a kind of geometrical dependance or 
abutment againft each other, the breaking of one arch pulls down 
two or three. To thefe obftacles muft be added the obfti- 
nacy of the foldiers, who fight to the very laft, difputing 
every inch of ground fo well as often to drive away the 
negroes who are without fhoes, and make white people 
bleed plentifully through their ftockings. * Neither can we 
let a building ftatid fo as to get a view of the interior parts 
without interruption, for while the foldiers are defending the 
inftance they {hew more good fenfe than the bulk of mankind, for, in cafe of a con- 
flagration in a city, the number of people who aflemble to flare is much greater 
than of thofe who come to affift, and the former always interrupt and hinder the 
latter in their efforts. The fudden retreat of the labourers, in cafe of an alarm, 
is alfo a wonderful inftance of good order and difcipline, feldomfeen in populous 
cities, where we frequently find helplefs people, women, and children, without 
any ill intention, intermixing in violent tumults and dangerous riots. 
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