The women look like angels, and
would be more beautiful than the sun, were it not for little black
spots that are apt to break out in their faces, and sometimes rise
in very odd figures. I have observed that those little blemishes
wear off very soon; but when they disappear in one part of the face,
they are very apt to break out in another, insomuch that I have seen
a spot upon the forehead in the afternoon which was upon the chin in
the morning."
The author then proceeds to show the absurdity of breeches and
petticoats, with many other curious observations, which I shall
reserve for another occasion: I cannot, however, conclude this
paper without taking notice that amidst these wild remarks there now
and then appears something very reasonable. I cannot likewise
forbear observing, that we are all guilty in some measure of the
same narrow way of thinking which we meet with in this abstract of
the Indian journal, when we fancy the customs, dresses, and manners
of other countries are ridiculous and extravagant if they do not
resemble those of our own.
THE VISION OF MARRATON.
Felices errore suo. -
LUCAN i. 454.
Happy in their mistake.
The Americans believe that all creatures have souls, not only men
and women, but brutes, vegetables, nay, even the most inanimate
things, as stocks and stones.
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