public or in private life is celebrated. Their dances are generally carried on by the men, and it is but seldom that the women are permitted to join in them. All the steps, figures, and motions of the dance are expressive, and significant of the business or transaction it is designed to promote. If war is to be proclaimed, the dance is expressive of the resentment and rage they bear to their enemies, and of the hostile manner in which they mean to treat them. If a party are going forth against the enemy, the dance of war is the prelude. In this, the transactions of the whole campaign are to be expressed. The warriors are represented as departing from their country, entering that of the enemy, surprising and conquering their foes, seizing prisoners, scalping the dead, and returning in triumph to the applause of their country. The performers appear to be agitated with all the natural passions that take place in any of these scenes. The cautions, the secrecy, the fierceness, and cruelty of the warriors, are represented in a natural and animated manner. The whole is designed to excite those passions and feelings in the warrior, which it is intended to represent. And so quick, exact, and dreadful is the representation, that the uninformed spectator is struck with horror, and looks to see the ground strewed with mangled limbs and slaughtered bodies.

If peace is made, this is also represented by a dance; the dance is adapted to signify, that the hatchet is buried, that the blood is all washed away, that the ghosts of the slain are appeased and at rest, and that both nations are now to live in all the friendship and familiarity of brotherhood. Thus, instead of being barely an amusement or diversion, dancing among the Indians is a very important and serious ceremony.

EPITAPHS.

EPITAPHIUM CHYMICUM.

HERE lieth, to digest, macerate, and amalgamatç with clay,

in balneo arenæ,

stratum super stratum,

the residuum, terra damnata, and caput mortuum, of BOYLE GODFREY, Chymist,

and M.D.

a man, who in this earthly laboratory,
pursued various processes to obtain
arcanum vitæ,

or the art of getting, rather than making gold.
Alchymist-like,

all his labour and projection,

as mercury in the fire, evaporated in fume.
When he dissolved to his first principles,
he departed as poor

as

as the last drops of an alembic;
for riches are not poured

on adepts of this world.

Though fond of news, he carefully avoided
the fermentation, effervescence,

and decripitation of this life.
Full seventy years his exalted essence
was hermetically sealed in its terrene matrass;
but the radical moisture being exhausted,
the elixir vitæ spent,

and exsiccated to a cuticle,

he could not suspend longer in his vehicle,
but precipitated gradatim,

per campanam, to his original dust.

May that light, brighter than Bolognian phosphorus, preserve him from the athanor, empyreuma, and reverberatory furnace of the other world; depurate him from the fæces and scoria of this, highly rectify and volatilize

his æthereal spirit,

bring it over the helm of the retort of this globe,
place it in a proper recipient,
or crystalline orb,

among the elect of the flowers of Benjamin,
never to be saturated,

till the general resuscitation,

deflagration, calcination,

and sublimation of all things.

EPITAPH

EPITAPH ON A WATCH-MAKER,

IN ABERCONWAY CHURCHYARD,

HERE hies, in an horizontal position,
the outside case' of

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'Peter Pendulum, watch-maker,' whose abilities in that line were an honour to his profession;

and prudence the regulator' of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous, and liberal, his hand never stopped

till he had relieved distress.

So nicely regulated were all his motions,'
that he never went wrong,

except when set a-going
by people

who did not know

'his key-'

Even then, he was easily

He had the art of disposing his time so well,

VOL. I.

that his hours' glided away

' in one continued round'

of pleasure and delight,
till an unlucky' minute' putting
a period to his existence,
he departed this life, ' wound up,*
in hopes of being taken in hand'

X

by

by his Maker,'

and of being thoroughly cleaned, repaired,'

and 'set a-going'

in the world to come.

EPITAPH

In the Churchyard of Grimmingham, in the County of Norfolk.

SACRED to the memory of Thomas Jackson*, Comedian, who was engaged, December 21, 1741, to play a comic cast of characters, in this great theatre, the world, for many of which he was prompted by nature to excel. The season being ended, his benefit over, the charges all paid, and his account closed, he made his exit in the tragedy of Death on the 17th of March 1798, in full assurance of being called once more to rehearsal; where he hopes to find his forfeits all cleared, his cast of parts bettered, and his situation made agreeable by Him who paid the great stock debt, for the love he bore to performers in general.

* This performer belonged to the Norwich company of comedians; and in 1777, and two or three seasons after, was engaged by Mr. Colman, at the Haymarket Theatre,

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