158 LITERATURE. 
navigation, and some of the lower branches 
of mathematics. They all live together in 
the greatest harmony, and in the strictest ob- 
servance of religious duties public, family, 
and private with every appearance of per- 
fect freedom fnom all crime, and bearing the 
stamp of extreme innocence and simplicity. 
" A new regulation has been recently made 
for the distribution of all their books among 
the families, they having been before kept 
as public property, as it was believed they 
would be more read and valued in that 
way ; and for which purpose shelves have 
been put up in all their houses, which 
are very neat and comfortable, though more 
like ship-cabins than dwelling-houses. The 
reason they give for this arrangement is, that 
they are in the habit of walking into each 
other's houses with the same freedom as into 
their own, and, taking up a book, will sit 
down and read it aloud, or not, as they feel 
disposed. The books of the Society for Pro- 
moting Christian Knowledge reached them in 
good time, some of which were particularly 
suitable ; there being several copies of the 
same work, such as the Homilies, and others." 
