in danger of having their boat swamped, by reason of the pitch melting from the extraordinary heat of the water.

in the colder regions.

sicality. His biographer says, "He foolishly imagines
that the earth has a sympathy with the heavens, and that
the globe is a huge animal, which breathes out the winds
through the holes of the mountains, as through its mouth
and nostrils!" We may here cxclaim," Kepler, Kepler,
'much learning hath made thee mad.""

The Bouquet.

R.

brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them."
MONTAIGNE.

CELEBRATION OF HARVEST-HOME.

"Grant Harvest Lord more, by a penny or twoo,
To call on his fellowes the better to doo,
Give gloves to thy reapers a largess to crie,
And daily to loiterers have a good eie."*

Granting that such occurrences have taken place in modern times, and that our globe was formerly much more fruitful in subterranean fires than at present, we might almost venture to ascribe all the bumps, swellings, or mountains upon the surface of the earth to a volcanic origin. At least, if we should not be justifiable in making all mountains originate in volcanic eruptions, we may proceed a great way towards proving that such subterra-"I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have neous concussions or heavings of igneous matter may have been the means of causing strata of marine shells, &c. to appear upon the tops of mountains; these being so thickly strown, or rather imbedded, that water must have been stationary for a very considerable period to amass such collections. But, on the other hand, how are we to suppose that water reposed for the necessary time upon the mountain tops alluded to? Is it not much more rational, and even philosophical, to suppose, that subterranean The joyful season of Harvest has in most nations given ebullitions have been the sole agents in such cases? and rise to a number of ceremonies expressive of mirth and that all the revolutions which Cuvier lays so much stress festivity. Among the heathens, the masters of families at upon may be traced to similar causes? Thus, in far dis- the end of harvest, offered up their first fruits to the gods, and feasted with their servants and acquaintance; and the tant times, a widely-extended earthquake, aided by those Jews, from whom they are thought to have derived the potent internal burnings which we will suppose to have custom, rejoiced and feasted at getting in harvest. The been then in full vigour, might have caused a mountainous origin of the festivity, however, is doubtless of much region to spring suddenly from the bosom of the deep in greater antiquity, and must have existed almost with the one quarter, whilst a corresponding depression, or a confirst formation of society. "For that men in all countries sequent retreat of the waters, on the other hand, might observes" have expressed their joy on this occasion by where agriculture flourished should," as a judicious writer whelm whole continents beneath the "wide welt'ring some outward ceremonies, has its foundation in the nature wave." Thus, in fact, might America have been struck of things. Sowing, is hope; reaping, fruition of the exoff from any connection by land with Europe, and all ves-pected good. To the husbandman, whom the fear of wet, tiges destroyed of that path by which mammoths, masto- blights, &c. had harassed with great anxiety, the compledous, magatheriums, tapirs, &c. first travelled to colonize tion of his wishes would of course impart an enviable feeling of delight. Festivity is but the reflux of inward those now transatlantic regions; for it must be observed, joy, and it could hardly fail of being produced on this octhat they are by no means indigenous to the soil of Ame- casion, which is a temporary suspension of every care.' rica, since their remains have been discovered in almost In exact conformity with this, it was, and is common with Christians, when the fruits of the earth are gathered in all parts of the eastern hemisphere, but more particularly and laid in their proper repositories, to provide a plentiful Now, let us imagine that a subterranean forge should At this entertainment, all are in the modern revolutionary supper for the harvest men and servants of the family. all at once begin to struggle for egress beneath some por- idea of the word, perfectly equal. There is no distinction tion of the Atlantic's basis, where shells have for ages of persons, but masters and servants sit at the same table, been accumulating; that the said fire, being too central converse freely together, and spend the remainder of the in situation to burst forth, should have the effect of heavner; a conviviality of which every poor dependant and night in dancing, singing, &c. in the most familiar maning up the mass of earth above it, until raised so far as to villager in the neighbourhood more or less partake. project from the ocean in the form of a lofty island; of In imitation of the ancients, who, at the conclusion of course, the top, sides, and ramifications of it would be full harvest sacrificed to Vacina (or Vacuna, so called as it is said a Vacundo, the tutelar deity, as it were, of rest and of shells, &c. These would by degrees be covered by ease) Popery, an author tells us, brings home her chaplets vegetable mould; and most likely, if no tradition or his- of corn, which she suspends on poles; that offerings are torical detail were to hand down its creation to posterity, made on the altars of her tutelar gods, while thanks are speculative virtuosi (some thousand years hence) might, in returned for the collected stores, and prayers are made for the course of their investigations, meet with the said marine future ease and rest. Images too of straw or stubble, he says, are wont to be carried about on this occasion; and petrefactions, and immediately, as a matter of mighty that in England he himself saw the rustics bringing home import, put their fertile inventions to the rack, in order to in a cart a figure made of corn, around which men and construct new theories. In fine, I beg leave to conclude women were singing promiscuously, preceded by a drum with an opinion, formed more by reading than observa- or piper; a statement with the latter part of which, tion, that volcanic agitations and eruptions have been the agrees an early traveller here, who on leaving with his primary and principal cause of almost all those revolutions party their inn at Windsor, tells us they met some country people celebrating their harvest home; and adds, which our planet's surface has most evidently undergone. last load they crowned with flowers, having besides an The many various and conflicting "theories of the image richly drest, by which perhaps they signify Ceres; earth," either given us by philosophers, or by speculative servants and maid servants, riding through the streets in this they keep moving about while men and women, men enthusiasts, only serve to show the futility of all. In fact, their cart, shout as loud as they can until they arrive at even as a puny ephemera, floating down the course of the barn." a rapid river, can form no correct idea of our globe; much less can man, "vile worm," form any thing like a perfect idea of the systems and worlds which roll in regularity through the boundless fields of extension. How apparently short-sighted do those great philosophers seem to us now, whose systems have been exploded; one succeeds another in popularity, and then sinks, after a short period of approbation, into indifference; nay, perhaps even Newton may, in his turn, be laid aside, despite of mathematical reasoning, to make room for some novel theorist, who may make a few alterations in the disposition of heavenly bodies more suited to the "multitude."Descartes advanced a most curious planetary theory; but perhaps Kepler may justly bear away the palm for whim.

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or harvest supper, or corn supper. So Carewe (Hist. wall) mentions "an ill kerned or saved harvest." At Werington, Devonshire, the custom is for the f when he has finished reaping, to twist or tie toget small quantity of the ears of the last corn into s kind of figure, which is brought home with great acc tions, hung over a table, and kept till the next year. owner would think it extremely unlucky to part with which is called a "knack;" a name, the etymolo which seems to be unknown. In Kent, this sort of is called an Ivy Girl, and is composed of some of th corn the field produces, and made, as well as the into a human shape; this is afterwards curiously d by the women, and adorned with paper trimmings, resemble a cap, ruffles, handkerchief, &c. of the lace. It is brought home with the last load of cor the field upon the waggon, and they suppose entities to a supper at the expense of their employers. In Sc this ancient custom is also faintly preserved to this d what is called the Cornlady, or Maiden, in a small of Grain, which is hung up when the reapers have fir Other places adopt other ceremonies. In Hertford there is a sport on this occasion called "crying the (it is the same in Shropshire) when the reapers tie to the tops of the last blade of corn, which is mare standing at some distance, throw their sickles at it, a who cuts the knot, has the prize, with acclamation good cheer. In some parts of Yorkshire there is at the end of shearing or reaping the corn, a prize-s to be run for, and when all the corn is got home into stack-yard, an entertainment is given called the i goose. In other parts of this country they also ha the like occasion, a Harvest Dame; in Bedfords

Jack and Jill.

In Cambrdge, at the Hawkie, as the Harvest F is called, they dress up a clown in woman's clothes, his face painted, and his head decorated with ears and bearing about him other symbols of Ceres, car a waggon with great pomp and loud shouts. Th call drawing the Harvest Queen.

In most of the preceding and other counties, it tomary to choose a sort of Chief, or Lord of the Ha This, a note on our quotation from Tusser, informa "generally some strayed sober working man, who stands all sorts of harvest work. If he be of able It is customary, also, as noticed in the same lines, he commonly leads the swarth in reaping and gloves to the reapers, especially where the wheat is "As to Largess, mentioned there," says the "they need not be reminded of it in these our day, 1661, under the month August, the custom of ever they were in our author's time." In Stevenson's Twelve Months of the Year, Home is thus glanced at:-" The furmetypote home the harvest cart and the garland of flowers the captains of the reapers; the battle of the field stoutly fought. The pipe and tabor are now bri work, and the lad and the lass will have no lead a heels. O, 'tis a merry time wherein honest ne make good cheer, and God is glorified in his bless

earth.

REVIVIANA.

MICRO-COSMOGRAPHIE; or, a Piect
WORLD DISCOVERED; in ESSAY
CHARACTERS. By DR. JNO. EARL
Eighth Edition. London: printed by R.
P. C. 1664.

[CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.]

The custom of having a cart here alluded to, and which 20. AN INSOLENT MAN is a fellow is called "The Hock Cart," still exists in many parts of the county in which the festival takes place. In Northum- himself into another face upon his prefe England, attended by different ceremonies, according to great, and newly proud: one that ha berland, according to Hutchinson, the practice is, to have an image, apparelled in great finery, crowned agreeably to for his own was not bred to it. One old form with flowers, a sheaf of corn placed under her arm, and a scythe in her hand, carried out of the village Fortune hath shot up to some office much clamour of the reapers, into the field, where it on the morning of the conclusive day, with music and thoritie, and he shoots up his neek to stands fixed on a pole all day, and when the reaping is tune, and will not bate you an inch of done, is brought home in like manner. This they call His very countenance and gesture the Harvest Queen, and it represents the Roman Ceres. In some parts of the same county it was formerly cus- how much he is, and if you underster dressed figure the Harvest Doll, or Kern-Baby, supposed tomary, according to the reports of old people, to call this not, he tels you, and concludes every to be a corruption of Corn-Baby or image, as is the kern with his place which you must and shal

Heis one that looks on all men as if he were davey angry, but especially on those of his acquintance, whom he beats off with a surlier distance, as men apt to mistake him, because they have known him. And for this cause he knowes not you till you have told him your name, which he thinks he hath heard, but forgot, and with much adoe seemes to recover. If you bare anything to use him in, you are his vas. all for that time, and must give him the patience of any injury, which he does only to show what he may doe. He snaps you up hitterly, because he will be offended, and tels you, you are sawcy and troublesome, and ometimes takes your money in this language. His very Courtesies are intolerable, they are -done with such arrogance and imputation; and he is the onely man you may hate after a good turn, and not be ungratefull; and men reckon it among their calamities to be beholden unto him. No vice drawes with it a more general hostility, and makes men readier to search into his faults, and of them, his beginning: and no tale so unlikely but it is wilingly heard of him, and believed. And commonly such men are of no merit at all; but make out in pride what they want in - Lo forth, and fence themselves with a stately Td of behaviour from that contempt would ursue them. They are men whose preferat does us a great deale of wrong, and en they are down, we may laugh at them, thout breach of good Nature.

ce:

21. ACQUAINTANCE is the first draught of riend, who we must lay down oft thus, as fe foul coppy before we can write perfect, Atrue: for from hence, as from a probation, take a degree in our respect, till at last ey whally possesse us. For acquaintance the board, and friendship the pair chosen of it: by which at last we begin to impriate, and enclose to ourselves, what bee lay in common with others. And comnly where it grows not up to this, it falls lor as may be: and no poorer relation, en old acquaintance, of whom wee aske ly how they do for fashion sake, and care The ordinary use of acquaintance is somewhat a more boldnesse of society, a ring of talke, newes, drink, mirth together: sorrow is the right of a friend, as a thing farer our heart, and to be delivered with it. thing easier then to create acquaintance: meer being in company once doth it; ereas friendship like children is ingendred more inward mixture, and coupling tother when we are acquainted not with eir virtues onely, but their faults to their sions, their fears, their shame, and are

"Near half an age, with ev'ry good man's praise,
Among his flock the shepherd passed his days;
The friend, the comfort of the sick and poor,
Want never knoek'd unheeded at his door.
Oft, when his duty call'd, disease and pain
Strove to confine him, but they strove in vain.
All moan his death, his virtues long they try'd,
They knew not how they lov'd him till he died.
Peculiar blessings did his life attend,

He had no foe, and CAMDEN was his friend.

72. On a Parish Clerk.
"Here lies within his tomb so calm,

Old Giles (pray sound his knell)
Who thought no song was like a psalm,
No music like a bell."

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73.-On the Parson of a Country Church. "Come let us rejoice, merry hearts, at his fall, For if he had liv'd he'd have buried us all."

74.-Epitaph on Paul Whitehead, Esquire. "Near this place are deposited the remains of Paul Whitehead, Esq. who was born January 25th, 1710, and died December 30th, 1774, aged 65.

bold on both sides to make their discovery. 71.-On Mr. Brighton, who had been Vicar of Egham 45 years
And as it is in the love of the body, which is
then at the height and full, when it hath
power and admittance into the hidden and
worst parts of it; so it is in friendship with
the mind, when those verenda of the soul, and
those things which we dare not show the
world are bare and detected one to the other.
Some men are familiar with all, and those
commonly friends to none; for friendship is
a sullenner thing, as a Contracter and taker
up of our affections to some few, and suffers
them not loosly to be scattered on all men.
The poorest tye of acquaintance, is that of
place and Country, which are shifted as the
place, and missed but while the fancie of that
continues. These are onely then gladdest of
other, when they meet in some forreign
region, where the encompassing of strangers
unites them closer, till at last they get new,
and throw off one another. Men of parts
and eminency, as their acquaintance is more
sought for, so they are generally more staunch
of it, not ought of pride only, but fear to let
too many in too neer them; for it is with
men as with pictures, the best shew better
afarre off and at distance; and the closer
you come to them, the courser they are.
The best judgment of a man, is taken from
his acquaintance, for his friends and enemies
are both partiall; whereas these see him
truest, because calmliest, and are no way so
engaged to lye for him. And men that grow
strange after acquaintance, seldome piece
together again, as those that have tasted
meat and dislike it, out of a mutuall expe-
rience disrelishing one another.

[To be continued in our next.]

SEPULCHRAL INSCRIPTIONS.

NO. XII.

COMPRISING CURIOUS EPITAPHS, MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, &c.
WHETHER REMARKABLE FOR SINGULARITY, ODDITY, OR BEAUTY.

Selected from various sources, expressly for the Kaleidoscope.
"Hush, ye fond flutterings, hush! while here alone,
I search the records of each mouldering stone."
Pleasures of Memory.
"Here lies the great :-false marble, where?
Nothing but poor and sordid dust lies here.-Cowley.

69.-In South Molton Church-yard, Devonshire,
"Here lieth a friend-John White,
Where all must go-good night."
70.-To the memory of Lucy Littleton.
"Made to engage all hearts and charm all eyes,
Though meek, magnanimous-though witty, wise;
Polite, as all her life in courts had been,
Yet good, as she the world had never seen;
The noble fire of an exalted mind,
With gentle female tenderness combin'd;
Her speech was the melodious voice of love,
Her song the warbling of the vernal grove;
Her eloquence was sweeter than her song,
Soft as her heart, and, as her reason, strong;
Her form each beauty of her mind express'd,
Her mind was virtue, by the graces dress'd,”

Here lies a man misfortune could not bend,
Prais'd as a poet-honour'd as a friend;
Tho' his youth kindled with the love of fame,
Within his bosom glowed a brighter fiame;
Whene'er his friends with sharp afflction bied,
And from the wounded deer the herd was fled,
Whitehead stood forth, the healing balm applied
Nor quitted their distresses till he dy'd.—

75-On Tom D'Ursey,

Here lies the lyric, who with tale and song,
Did life to three score years and ten prolong;
His tale was pleasant and his song was sweet,
His heart was cheerful--but his thirst was great,
Grieve reader, grieve! that he, too soon grown old,
"His song has ended, and his tale has told."

76.-Epitaph, taken from the Greek.
"A blooming youth lies buried here,
Euphemius! to his country dear;
Nature adorn'd his mind and face,
With ev'ry muse and every grace;
Prepar'd the marriage state to prove,
But death has quicker wings than love."

77.-On General Withers, by Mr. Pope.
"Here, Withers, rest! thou bravest, gentlest mind,
Thy country's friend, but more of human kind;
Oh! born to arms; oh, worth in youth approved;
Oh soft humanity in age beloved.
For thee the hardy veteran drops a tear,
And the gay courtier feels the sigh sincere.
Withers, adieu! yet not with thee remove
Thy martial spirit, or thy social love;
Amidst corruption, luxury and rage,
Still leave some ancient virtues to our age,
Nor let us say, those English glories gone,
The last true Briton lies beneath this stone."

78.-Epitaph on a Compositor,

"No more shall copy bad perplex my brain;
No more shall type's small face my eye-balls strain;
No more the proof's foul page create me troubles,

By errors, transpositions, outs, and doubles;

No more to overrun shall I begin,

No more be driving out or getting in ;

The stubborn pressman's scorn I now may scoff,
Revis'd, corrected, finally work'd off."

79.-Epitaph on a Blacksmith,
"My sledge and hammer lie declin'd,
My bellows have quite lost their wind;
My fires extinct, my forge decay'd ;

My vice is in the dust all laid;

My coal is spent, my iron gone,
My nails are driven, my work is done."

80.—In a Church-yard in Cornwall,
"Here lies the body of Jonathan Day,
Lately remov'd from over the way,

A sword-fish was lately caught off Mare Tail, near
Wisbech Deeps, by the crew of one of Mr. Glass's fish-
length, including the sword, which measures three feet
six inches; the tail was semicircular, and upwards of
three feet wide; the eyes very large and brilliant. It was From Landmann's Historical, Military, and Picturesque
sold for thirty shillings, and was forwarded to Lincoln for
the purpose of exhibition in that city.

Comprehending Notices of new Discoveries or Improve-ing boats, belonging to Boston. It was about ten feet in
ment in Science or Art; including, occasionally, sin-
palar Medical Cases; Astronomical, Mechanical, Phi-
saphical, Botanical, Meteorological, and Mineralogical
Phenomena, or singular Facts in Natural History;
Vegetation, &c.; Antiquities, &c.; to be continued in
series through the Volume.]

alled La Galera Islands, are sunken rocks. The three spots to the N. of Cadiz, close in shore, are called The Porpoises. his inclination; coffee, chocolate, cold meat, fried or

broiled eggs and fruit, with a glass of wine, are all articles | are not regarded as mean or neglectful in making no
from which they select a breakfast. At two o'clock, the return. The chief cause of this may be, that all formality,
family assembles to dine together; this meal consists of ostentation, and expense, is discarded; no refreshments
soup, made so thick with bread and rice, or vermicelli, of any kind being offered excepting after dancing: cards
that it has nearly the consistency of pudding; the boiled are seldom introduced, and then only to play gambling
beef, a piece of smoked sausage, with a small quantity of games, such as monte, pescao, faro, &c. the two former
ham, compose another dish, whilst all kinds of vegetables, much resembling our lansquenet. The evening is most
excepting potatoes, form a third; these having been all frequently passed in cheerfulness, playing at forfeits, and
boiled together to make the soup, is called el puchero or a variety of innocent amusements: a small party will some-
la olla, meaning the pot. Amongst the lower classes, and times gather in one corner to listen to a song on the gui-
even some of the middle ranks of society, the dinner is rar; whilst others chat in another part of the room, or
thus concluded; but with the more opulent, these dishes in an adjoining one. Dances, without formality, are
merely constitute a first course, which is followed by a vast very common; as also concerts, and even private theatrical
variety of stews, broiled or fried fish, creams, and a profu- performances. The boleros, fandangos, &c. are seldom
sion of sweets. The salad is dressed with salt, garlick, a danced off the stage.
little bad oil, a much greater quantity of vinegar, and
a still greater of water. One or two glasses of wine,
commonly sherry, after dinner, closes that meal, when
every one retires to sleep during an hour or two, which is
called the siesta. Invitations to dinner are very rare, but
do not extend to the evening.

The supper is the next regular meal, consisting of salad, boiled eggs, cold fish, stewed beef, which has served to make the soup, or any other remains of the dinner, and is generally served at eleven o'clock.

The celebrated national dish, called la olla podrida, is by no means common; it is composed of a fattened peacock, or turkey, stuffed with a capon, a partridge, a pigeon, &c. one within the other; the bones are sometimes carefully taken out, and the whole is then cut in slices, having been boiled for making the soup. Veal is prohibited by law, but is procurable clandestinely.

The bread made at Cadiz is so good and white, that it is very justly celebrated as excellent; yet the people of Sevilla claim the pre-eminence in the manufacture of that article; a small quantity of oil is used in mixing the flour, which perhaps causes this astonishing superiority. One of the Kings of Spain, some years since, being very much pleased with the bread served at his table, whilst on a visit at Sevilla, engaged bakers of that place to make his bread at Madrid, and had the same flour, and even the water sent to the capital; the bread thus made was very good, but was said to have been inferior in quality to that of Sevilla.

The wines usually drunk at Cadiz, are the red wines of Cataluna, and the sherry made at Xeres; the latter is very inferior to that sent for the London market.

The markets of Cadiz are exceedingly well supplied with every necessary, and many luxuries; the sale of butchers' meat is restricted to the public shambles, and poultry to the vegetable market. The market is remarkably well supplied with fish, vegetables, aud fruit: of the latter, the best are grapes, figs, and apricots; the melons, peaches, and apples, are very inferior in flavour to those grown in the more northern climates; gooseberries, currants, and raspberries, are never seen at Cadiz; and pears, cherries, nectarines, strawberries, plumbs, &c. are scarce. Charcoal is the only fuel used for cooking, which is supplied from the woody country near Algeziras in the bay of Gibraltar.

In no country does freedom of society exist in a greater
degree than in Spain generally; a simple introduction is
all that is required.
At mid-day, on Sundays, the Plaza San Antonio is the
resort of all the fashionable people of Cadiz; the minis-
ter, the grandees, the military, the civil offices of Govern
ment, all have dress suits; and on these occasions they
make a brilliant display of the richest embroidery, both of
gold and silver; cardinals, monks, priests, friars; and, in
short, the clergy in general, in their robes, attend and
mix with the gay throng, and many of them are as atten-
tive to the ladies as the military. This ensemble forms a
very interesting scene; and the surrounding buildings,
mostly washed white, the green Venetian blinds, the para-
pet walls of the houses, ornamented with little urns, and
the incredible number of white turrets, rising in the deep
blue sky, considerably above the highest chimneys, give
the whole an effect so enlivening that it approaches to
enchantment.

to some other house. Several of these parties followi
succession during the night until sunrise. The Spaniar
rarely attempt to personify any particular characters, b
aim simply at disguising themselves.
There is but one theatre in Cadiz, which is very nea
and quite large enough for the ordinary number of spe
tators; but the dramatic performances and scenery a
very inferior to those in France and England. Femal
are not admitted to the pit, and the boxes are all privat
The pit and gallery only are open to the public, and th
price of admittance is very trifling; the whole performan
is usually concluded at about ten o'clock.

The Custom-house is a fine building of cut stone; t interior contains several magnificent apartments. Smu gling is, however, a general practice at Cadiz, but is c ducted with a degree of security requiring explanatio A merchant having a quantity of goods, still on boar vessel in the harbour, has only to seek one of the ti waiters, and communicate to him his wishes: the ti waiter, who is sure of his game, states his price, comme about half the value of the duties; and, should the m chant hesitate as to the chance of seizure, the tide-wai will readily deposit, as a security, a sum of money, eq to the full value of the goods.

On the highest ground, and in the centre of the city Cadiz, stands the signal-tower, which announces the c parture and arrival of vessels, as also those passing at st With the assistance of excellent telescopes, such accurs drawings are made of every foreign ship of war wi enters the port, that they are always known again on the return, even at a considerable distance from the harbou notwithstanding any alteration in painting and rigging,

The police of Cadiz is well regulated, and the stre are efficiently guarded during the night by able-bod watchmen, armed in a suitable manner, without cam a heavy staff and lantern, and sounding a whistle at of calling the hours: the streets are well lighted with g lamps, so that street robberies but rarely occur, and houses are so strongly secured that burglaries are

uncommon.

GUERILLA WARFARE.

The war with Spain has given birth, in Paris, to sorts of publications respecting that interesting coun Among all these, none furnish more interesting desc tions of the most important class of Spanish Combata the Guerillas and Miguelets, than the Reminisce l'Espagne.

The dress of the gentlemen very nearly resembles that of London or Paris, with the exception of a very large cocked hat, a silver loop, and scarlet cockade: black silk stockings not much used. The costume of the females is quite distinct from all the northern dresses: they uniformly appear in black, without any air of mourning, excepting at public balls, weddings, or other extraordinary occasions, then something between the English and French costume is attempted, but it is far less becoming to them than their usual black dress, which is composed of a black bombasin, or silk skirt, rather short, and trimmed with a profusion of black velvet, or silk fringe; the body is also sometimes black, but more commonly of purple, white, blue, or yellow satin, very gaily ornamented on the shoulders with fringe and velvet: the neck is invariably covered with a coloured silk half handkerchief, which is put on, fitting very close to the shape; the sleeves are mostly long, or very short; the former are frequently "The Guerrilla (says the author) is chameleon ornamented near the wrists with a profusion of gold or Protee to the last degree. The herdsmen and shephe diamond buttons. The head is but slightly defended who feed their flocks in apparent stupidity and listless: from the burning rays of the sun by a thin black or white serve them as spies, and inform and advertise then by veil, attached to the mantilla, which hangs over the shoul-note of a whistle, which echoes and re-echoes from ders like a scarf, fastened by one edge to a comb sustain- to rock. Entering the towns under cover of their in ing the hair at the back of the head, and terminating near trable cloaks, the Guerillas laugh and drink with the ground in points; the veil is always thrown back, and French, but are not for a moment, unobservant. they never use parasols: the hair is worn as in England. ascertain all the plans of their enemy, the departu The customs, manners, dress, amusements, &c. of the The stockings are always of white silk, the shoes of white convoys, of sick or wounded, of money or provision. people of Cadiz, widely differ from the English. At satin frequently, the gloves of any colour, and a small courier or a detachment; and by the most able strate twelve o'clock visiting commences until two o'clock, and coloured fan, with which the ladies of Cadiz play in a they suddenly collect, fall on the booty, seize the during that time, the military, in full uniform, merchants manner quite peculiar to themselves, and which adds or the provisions, murder the escort, and disperse and and idlers, all resort to the street called Calle-ancha, which materially to their natural vivacity of action: they walk appear as rapidly as they assemble and attack; and v is the widest and handsomest in Cadiz, and serves as a very erect, take short steps, turn out their feet as much as rewarded by the spoil, they leave the bodies of their sort of exchange, where business is negociated. After the any French dancing-master; in short, the ladies of Anda- and their dupes to the fowls of heaven. stesta, a vast concourse of fashionables, of all ranks, lusia possess so much elegance and grace in all their moveassemble on the Alameda, a public walk, shaded by trees, ments, are so cheerful and affable in all their manners, on the north side of the town, and well provided with study so much the art of pleasing, that it is impossible to marble seats and lamps. It is singular to observe that remain in their company a single hour without being wonone of the avenues is frequently so much crowded, as to derfully struck, with admiration at least. They are not render it necessary to regulate the rate of our walk by that displeased, nor do they affect to be offended at being comof those before us, whilst the remainder are totally neg-plimented on their good looks, as they pass through the lected; and were a lady to be seen promenading in any streets, by any person whatsoever, although by no means of those deserted walks, although not removed from the acquainted with the admirer. Any one using perfumes throng more than two or three yards, her reputation would in Spain, is regarded as requiring that auxiliary to cover suffer by it. Any lady accepting the arm of a gentleman, some personal defect. excepting that of a near relation, would incur the same danger; yet in the evening, as soon as the lamps are lighted, nothing is more common, or more proper: to shake hands with a gentleman is equally improper. The respectable portion of the promenaders leave the Alameda soon after the lamps are lighted, and either proceed to walk in the Plaza San Antonio, the only square in Cadiz, or go to the ice-houses, where refreshments of every kind are sold on very moderate terms.

The tertullas, or evening parties, commence at about eight o'clock, which are upon a very different system from the English fashion; there are many families who receive company every evening, and others who go out every evening to attend the tertullas of their friends; the latter

"The labourer has his arms concealed in the ba his spade or the stock of his plough-qu'on y regarde The rock that appears immoveable from its massive w and colossal form, has its slips and its curtains; it on its axis, and makes a battery of blunderbusses. S times two hundred guerillas are flat on the earth b the smallest ledge-you have no suspicion: in a mo a pistolet, fired by the chief, is the signal for a volley they then rush, like Arabs, on the astonished par massacre all they can seize, shouting the oath which energetic accompaniment of every Castilian entery Caraco de Demonio!'

The public amusements are few: subscription balls are very uncommon, and seldom attended by respectable fe- "We surprised one day, in the gorges of the males. During the carnival, the Spaniards have masque- Morena, two Guerillas sleeping under a rock which fo rades, but this entertainment has greatly degenerated: a vault over their heads. The beams of the moon the present mode is thus; a party composed of as many the countenances of these modern Endymions. W ladies as gentlemen, with a leader or master of ceremonies, subject for a painter! Their weapons, grasped by mask themselves and get into hired coaches, where they murderous hands, still appeared menacing and destru proceed to such houses as they have discovered to be dis-on their breasts glittered the terrible silvato, or whi posed and prepared to receive masks: on reaching the crystal; a rosario of granite, mixed with precious st door they all assemble in the court within the house, and and, finally, the horrible quadrangular stiletto. then ascend the stairs, each gentleman conducting his how much French blood had that steel already spa partner, and the leader with the music in front playing a remained, with five or six grenadiers, some minu march. Having marched round the room, after one or contemplation. What muscles! what limbs! what two dances they accept of some refreshment, and proceed gy, even in repose! In a few moments they were