Pougens,_ in his * Antiquities du 
Nord, ” after confulting and-comparing 
a variety of authors, has maintained 
that the Stythian charaéters and lan- 
guage have engendered all the charac-- 
. ters and languages of different nations, 
and Bailly in his « Effay on Fables,” 
is of the fame opinion. 
According to Cailly, who fupports 
his own conjectures by the authorities 
f Goguet and Volney, Egypt, on ac- 
count of the nature of its climate, is 
but. little calculated for aftronomical 
purpoles, That. country, properly 
ipeaking, pofieiles but two fealons, the 
fummer and autumn; the aftronomical 
fyftem therefore, attyibuted to this na- 
tion, will not acedrd with the order of 
the feafons and the labours of agricul- 
ture in this region. In refpect, to ar- 
chitecture he remarks with the author 
of the * Origin of La®s,” that they 
néver df: ‘cove! red the art of conftrugt- 
ing either arches, or vaults, while the 
Northern nations have exhibited great 
proficiency in refpect to this branch of 
knowledge, It is allowed, however, 
that they have left fome admirable re- 
mains of fkill and tafte, although it is 
at t the fame time maintained, that they 
orrowed rather than. invented, what- 
ever was admirably. 
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Blfrida, only daughter of Ordgar, 
Earl of Devonfhire, was confidered as 
the moft beautiful female in England. 
Edgar, the reigning Monarch, hearing of 
her charms, expreffed a defire to make her 
his Queen, but being well aware of the 
foily of an inconfiderate choice, he in- 
ftruéted his favourite, Elthelwold, to re- 
pair to the caftle of her father, where the 
was brought up at a diftance from the 
sau. and examine if her beauty was fo 
exquifite as had been reprefented. If re- 
mown had not exaggerated it, he was at 
the fame time inftructed, to demand her 
hand in marriage. 
Ethelwcld immediately fet out upon 
his journey, was {mitten with the charms 
of the young lady, and courted her for 
himfelf, at the fame time carefully con- 
sealing the orders and the wifhes of his 
Sovereign, On his return he depicted her 
as far inferior in point of perfon to her 
reputaiion, and the King thought no 
more of tlie enchanting “and fecluded 
Virgin. 
Some time-after, Ethelwold himfelf 
mecxtioned the daughter of the Earl of 
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Devonfhire, and reprefented. that. the 
eftates of fo rich an heirefs, although 
they could not hold out any temptation to 
a Monarch, would conftitute a precious 
acquifition for a fubjeci, deftitute of the 
gifts of fortune. He concluded by re- 
quefting the King to permit him to afpire 
to her hand; and this being readily 
granted, he returned to Elfrida, and cee 
lebrated his nuptials. 
But notwithfanding the fcrupulous pr2- 
caution adopted upon this occafion, he 
was not long able to conceal his perfidy ; 
for the King having been informed of his 
condué&t, took an opportunity to hunt in 
Harewood Forefi, and being then in the 
neighbourhood of her cattle, inffted oa 
fecing Elfrida. Ethelwold endeavoured 
in vain to put off the honour of the vifit, 
and with fome difficulty was permitted 
even to return- home, on purpofe to pre- 
pare for the reception of the Monarch, 
No fooner had he arrived in her prefeace, 
than he conjured his lady to ccnceal her 
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