1801.] 
made of clay, itis, in wet-weather, dirty 
and flippery beyond defcription. The 
.Yoad for carriages is a very bad one. Half 
way between Ritzbuttle and Cuxhaven is 
the Commodore’s houfe ; itis a neat cot- 
tage, painted white, and the pleafanteft- 
looking houfe that we had feen for fome 
time. The port of Cuxhaven has only 
two or three littl hovels, and a windmill, 
near it, and hardly a tree is to be feen. 
The paffengers, who go by the packets, 
refide, during their fay on fhore, at Ritz- 
-buttle; the beit accommodations there, 
for thofe who do not regard the expence, 
is at the Englith tavern, which is kept by 
a civil man, of the name of Miles: he may 
be recollected by fome Englifhmen, as ke 
was formerly a waiter at Mays’sTavern*, 
near the Planket in Oftend. The wind 
being foul, we refided a few days at a 
fma!l houfe kept by a fhopkeeper in the 
town, where our expences were moderate. 
The packets ufually leave Cuxhaven on 
Thuridays and Sundays; the expence 
of an order to be received on board is 
12s. 6d. The order is obtained from the 
agent of the Englifh-packets, refident at 
Ritzbuttle. The paflage on board the 
packet coft four guineas for each perfon. 
Having a fair wind, cn the 16th of May, 
5796, we bade adieu to the Continent, and 
in forty hours Janded at Yarmouth. 
And now, Mr. Editor, it only remains 
for me to thank you for the fpace which 
you have allowed me to take up in your 
Magazine, and to aflure you that I feel 
myfelf much obliged by your indulgence. 
I thould be happy, if, from the few mate- 
tials in my poffeffion, I could have render- 
ed this Sketch more interefting ; but, fuch 
as it is, it will give me much gratification, 
if it fhould be the means of conveying a 
finall portion of information and enter- 
tainment to your readers. I am, Sir, 
Hackney, Your’s, &c. 
Sept. 6, r8or. ROBERT STEVENS. 
Ree 
Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE following faé&ts appear of fo fin- 
gular and almoft incredible a na- 
ture, that I think neceffary to apprife the 
* Tam forry to remark, that this houfe at 
Oftend was the only folitary inftance which I 
have met with on the Continent of an inn 
kept by one of my own countrymen, where 
no imfofition was practifed: I was at Oftend 
in the year 1791, and again in 1793 and 
1794, and L invariably found that Mays would 
rather lofe money himfelf than impofe upon 
his cuftomers; yet this man was a finuggler, 
MoostTHiy Msc, -No, 79, 
Goats with Gold-toloured Teeth. 
207 
reader that they are extrafted from the 
“© Voyage Tiftorique, Litieratre, et Pitto- 
refque, dans les Iles et Pofseffions et-devant 
Vénetiennes du Levaat.’ After having 
barely added that the fcene of the pheno- 
mena here defcribed is the ifle of Cepha- 
lonia, I proceed to the narrative. 
** IT was ({ays the author) at the coun- 
try-feat of one of the chiets of the ifle, and 
drank every morning a glafs of goat’s 
milk. The Greek who fupslied me with 
that beverage had accuftomed a goat to 
come into my apartment, where fhe fuffer- 
ed herfelf to be milked in return for a few 
handfuls of Corinth raifins which I gave 
her. 
<‘ One day, I accidently perceived that 
the teeth of the goat were ali of a very 
beautiful yellow hue, inclining to the color 
of gold. I immediately opened the ani- 
mal’s mouth, and rubbed her teeth: but 
the rubbing only rendered them more 
brilliant. This difcovery was to me ex- 
tremely interefting: and I would certainly 
not have exchanged my goat for the famed 
Amalthza, although the latter had the ho- 
nor of siving milk to the Matter of the 
Thunder. I made my hoft acquainted with 
my adventure, expreffing to him the great 
pleafure it had giventome. He replied 
that my goat was not the only one remark- | 
able for gilded teeth: and he proved the 
truth of his affertion by conducting me to 
an inclofed meadow where I faw above 
two hundred of thofe animals, which all 
exhibited the fame phenomenon. They 
were much fatter than any I had feen in 
other parts of the ifle, and yielded milk-in 
greater abundance, and o¥ fuperior qua- 
lity. 
‘* A very fenfible and enlightened phy- 
fician, with whom I difcourfed of thefe 
facts, fhowed me, by’ way of anfwer, a 
gold ring, of which one part appeared to 
me to be filver; obferving to me that the 
white cclor was only a wath, but fo trong 
that the moft violent frition Was ince- 
pable of diminifhing it. He told me, that, 
returning once from Santa-Maura to Ce- 
phalonia, he caft anchor on the coat of a 
rocky. uninhabited iflet, about eleven cr 
twelve leagues diftant from the latter of 
thofe two iflands ; that, having landed, he 
amuted him(eif by colleéting plants on the 
rock, and filled a handkerchief with them. 
After his return to the barque, which un» 
fortunately was not at his {ole difpofal, ard 
when he was already advanced on his 
voyage, he was extremely aftonifhed to oba 
ferve that the gold ring which he wore on 
his finger appeared almof entirely filyere 
He ruboed it, but to no purpofe, This 
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