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tion, and makes trial of other Jovers till ~ 
the moment fhe becomes a mother, and 
contrasts a folii and indiffoluble union, 
In fome parts ot Ireland and Scotland, 
but particolarly in the Hebrides, other 
cuftoms and fingularities are obferved, 
which _prove that the barbarifm of the 
early periods of c.vilization may be ftudied 
and difcovered amid the mot polithed 
naticns. We fhall conc!ude thefe reflec- 
tions with a few details relative to a {mail 
difri&, forgotten in almoft every map, 
and overlooked by almeft all geographers. 
This coun:ry, the fmall canton of Sa- 
teriand, which was recently vifited by the 
Rev. Mr. Hoche, of Ron ininghaulen, who 
has furnifhed copious details refpecting it 
in his Four Bea ab Saterian d, Eati Frie‘e 
Jand, and Gréuinge on, printed in the Ger- 
man language at ‘Bremen, is incloled be- 
tween two fmall rivers, the Ob and the 
Marka, and is {urrounded oa every fide by 
marfhes and b-aths. It is fifteen miles in 
length, and fx in breadth., A. learned 
fociety, not more than fifty miles from 
the fpot, had not, previous to the appear- 
ance of this publication, any idea of its 
exifience. 
According to the traveller to whom we 
are indebted, fer thelfe details, the inhabi- 
tants of this ccuntry are deicendaits of 
fome emigrants ‘from Friefeiand, who 
abandoned that coun'ry in the ninth cen- 
tury, cn otcafion of the blocdy convertion 
of the natives to Chriitianity by Pepin and 
Charlemagne. 
This ee is divided among fix vil- 
izges, forming three parifhes, depen ent on 
the E:thop of Muaficr. The language cf 
the ipentte is the ancient Gialeét of Friefe- 
land. Thé inhabitants of Saterland reckon 
a treie by nights, and have retained fe- 
veral other cufloms of the ancient Ger- 
wnans. They pay no impefts, and occupy. 
themicives in hunting and ifhine.. They 
are tolerant, and exercife hofpitality with 
great wi ilinene{s and difintercitedne(s. 
The women, as ameng all thole nations 
in which civi:jzation hes made but little 
progrefs, are kept in a kind of flavery, and 
are obliged to perform the moft-. L bo orious 
dutics. The men employ themicives in 
the chace, and fometimes make long voy- 
ages in their boats. The venereal difcafe 
has net yet penetrated into this little canton : 
the [mall-pox isvery mild, and the Beeple 
are firangers to phyficians. ‘ 
The country contains no poor; the 
burgomafters ‘furnith the indigent, who 
are very few in number, with the means of 
exifence, and widows and o:phans evely 
whese find friends and protectors. 
: 
Traces of the Savage Stale among Polifhed Nations. 
(Feb. 4; 
-The natives of Saterland intermarry 
only among themlelves, and never tiil they 
had attained their full vigour, which has 
doubtlefs contributed to the very remark +» 
able beauty of their perfons. They have 
many extremely ancient popular fongs, tbe 
tunes of which are not without merit.— 
They are uncommonly fond of a ftery, of - 
which the following is an oatline:—A ‘ 
young and beautiful female accompsnied 
her father to Embden, where fhe faw a 
captain of a fhip, who infpired her heart 
with the moft violent paffion. She em- 
barked and accompanied him in the drefs 
of afailor.. The inhabitants of Saterland, 
meanwhile, fhared in the exceflive grief of 
the father for her lofs. The diiguifed 
lover makes feven veyages to India, is 
till a prey to her paflion, and is always 
unfortunate in her innocent endeavours to 
diiclofe it. At length the hasan opportunity 
of faving the life of her beloved, who dil- 
covers and marries ber. 
Much of Dr. Hoche’s information was 
furnifhed by Henry Wilmien, a venerable 
old man of eighty-nine years, whofe un- 
derflanding and experience are juftly ap- 
precia‘ed by ail his countrymen. I fhall 
here terminate thefe confiderations and re- 
fearchés, hoping they may be continued by 
fome more able, philofophic obferver. 
Experience has douhbtlets fufficiently 
convinced us that it is inert to intro- 
duce too fuddenly the illumination of rea- 
fon and philofophy among the lower orders 
of mankind. But might act the people be 
rendered more happy witdeut enlightening 
them teo fuddenly ? Could ‘not -the traces 
of barbarifm, and cfa favage fate, which 
fill exift among the moft polifhed nations, 
be more rapidly erafed:? Could not the 
bleffings of civilization be thus more uni- 
formly diftribured 5 and by gradually in- 
troducing among the inhabitants of the 
country thofe advantages which the pro- 
erefs of palais impart, might not the 
interval which {eparates them from the 
pelifhed and happy portion of the nation, - 
be filled up? 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
An ACCOUNT of the HOUSES of 1NDUS- 
TRY im. FLANDERS. From the late 
TRAVELS of CAMUS. 
T Strafbourg, and in ee of the 
Lf great towns thréugh Fianders, houfes 
ot induliry are eftablifhed, with a fae to 
exiirpate idlenefs, beggary, and vagae ; 
bonds. Thefe workhoules are, inevery 
ref{pect, mafter- pieces of moral os politi- 
tical economy. 
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