and full in a waking perfon lying at reft in a horizontal posture, and whofe mind is compofed, as in the fame perfon in time of fleep; which, however, does not feem to be entirely the cafe: for tho' the difference may be small, and there may be many causes which may render it difficult, by obfervation, to determine that difference with any de shift it from place to place with a fhovel, that the duft, impurities, and heated air may be difperfed. When the corn, by this proceeding, has exhaled all its fiery particles, it may be kept an hundred years, provided the roof of the granary be of a reasonable height, and all humidity and vermin excluded. From the LADY'S MAGAZINE. Account of the Hottentots concluded. T' gree of certainty; yet the remarkableXXXXXXXXXXXX flownefs and fullness of the pulfe, in the deep fleep accompanying an apoplexy, or occafioned by opium, makes it highly probable, that, even in the much gentler fleep of perfons in health, the pulfe is fomewhat flower and fuller, than it would be, merely from the compofure of mind, horizontal position of the body, and quiefcence of the mufcles of voluntary motion. Let us therefore fee, whether the flownefs and fulness of the heart's motion, in time of sleep, may not be, in part, owing to fome diminution of the fenfibility of this organ. To conclude with fumming up what has been faid in a few words, in ordinary fleep, the fenfibility of the heart and lungs fuffers fo finall a diminution, that their motions will be very little more affected by it, than they would be from the horizontal position and reft of the body, and compofure of mind attending it. In the deeper fleep, which fucceeds great fatigues, the motions of the heart and lungs will be more obfervably altered. And, in the most profound fleep, cccafioned by opium, or a morbid ftate of the brain, where a general infenfibility reigns over the whole body, the pulfe will become much more remarkably flow and full, and respiration flower and deeper. HAT Autes may be made of reeds or canes is certainly very true; but that a flute, a hautbois, or any fuch wind inftrument should be made of the gut of an ox, is one of the idlest imaginations that I have met with. For I cannot poffibly apprehend how the gut of an ox or of any other creature should be fo dried or hardened as that, being. formed into a wind-inftrument for the mouth, the breath fhould not moisten and diffolve its frame, and make it fall on end or together, as we fay, like a fresh gut. Befides, if a wind inftrument, like an European Hautbois, was made of a gut, it can hardly be allowed it was made of the gut of an ox: 'tis much more probable it was made of the gut of an elephant or rhinoceros. And then, again, the modulating their flutes with a fort of circle, moved up and down. the barrels, is to me a whim that never fubfifted in any thing but the imagination. There needs no more. The learned good man was imposed on. And I only add, that if the Hottentots had any fuch things as flutes or hautbois, I think I could hardly have failed to have either feen or heard of them fomewhere *******{*}***** about the Cape, after fo many years re From the COURT MAGAZINE. fidence there, and fo many tours as Y made up and down most of the known Hottentot nations. I converfed freely Method of preferving Corn for a great with the people wherever I went. They T Number of Years. HE corn, at first, must be removed every 15 days, for at leaft fix months fucceffively; after which it must be removed once a month. They VOL. III. often entertained me with their mufic, drum, drums, of which little or nothing is to be made, confifts the whole body of the which, Hottentot harmony which notwith, tanding they often hear European mui fick at the Cape, they affert, excels the European mulick, and the mufick of all the other parts The reader will think, perhaps, it the while to bestow fo berty; and fuch as have their hands at liberty clap them. Then present them; Telves feveral couples to dance but never more than two couples dance at once. When a woman ftatis up and thakes the rings upon her legs it is a token the wants a imate partners and the has one immediately. And two antiples, two men and two women, being entered was have have done here to de- the ring, they dance each man with his tlian to none. IV. fhall now give an account of the Hottentot dancing, concerning which we have bad hitherto little befides miftaken hear-fay. The occafions of their dancings, fetting afide their religious folemnities, are generally thefe: when fam fam (as they call it) or peace is clapt up with a nation with which they have been at war when one of the Kraal has flain a wild beast, or escaped fome great danger or when fome notable piece of good luck has happened to fome particular perfon or family of the Kraal. On these and the like occafions the whole Kraal teftifies its joy in dancings, fometimes whole hights, and fometimes till far in the next day, without any manner of refreshment. Dancing is the delight of of both fexes of the Hottentots; and the manner of of it among them on the occafions I have mentioned is this. The men the Kraal fquat down very regularly in a circle, leaving diftances therein for the women to join them. The women join the circle, not only to to enlarge it for better convenience of the dancers, who perform within it, but to affift likewife in the common ho, ho, ho, and aid the mufick of the gom goms with their pot-drums. No fooner are the gom goms heard, than the women begin to rub with their fingers on the pot drums. And ho, ho, ho, is the fong of all who have their mouths at-li $ the partner, face to face, à la mode de France. When they begin, they are at the distance of ten paces from one another; and they are about a quarter of an hour in dancing before they meet. At times they meet not but tarn about and dance back to back; and one dancing bout generally takes up above an hour. They never take hold of each other by the hands. The men in dancing deal their legs about them to a prodigy of activity. But after what has been faid of them on other occafions the reader perhaps will not wonder at that. The women (the most curious thing to be obferved here) hold not up their heads 'while they dance, but keep them all the while as it were in their bofoms, their eyes fixed on their feet. The women too, while they are dancing, fing ho, ho, ho, and clap their hands. They are very active in this diverfion, keeping their legs continually in a wonderfully nimble motion; but when 'tis at an end, they hobble and drag their legs as if they were crippled with the gout. Both men and women cut capers, and famp with their feet on the ground. The men cut their capers wonderfully clean and high; and the women perform theirs very notably. When the women ftamp in dancing, the rings on their legs make juft fuch a noife, methinks, as the harness on the back ofha coach horse when he shakes himself. It can compare it to nothing better. When the two couples leave the circle (andthey always do it together) others fup. ply their places with great difpatch and impatience. The dancers generally tire the musicians. When the mufic ceafes for refpite, dancing for that time is at an end; but the women continue their hooing hooing and clapping of hands till a fresh dance begins. And: the entertainment hardly ever ceases tilkall the inhabitants of the Kraal have staken their turns ands had their fill of dancing. This (without staying to remark here) iseasiclegoland perfect an account as can be given of the Hottentot dancing, at which the author has been prefent a great many timeswoy 072 006 but . N. id diw nam LOKG OF Fe you! you mig.d vikt now. 1 cup & JuODE SIN VALD DER I Nwhat manner to tell you my unfortunate story I know not; fhame and confusion forbid me to whisper it to the very winds, but a just concern for the happiness of others, has worked upon my humanity, and wrings the melancholy fecret from my heart You muft know, I am a woman of fome birth, had once a little beauty, and what was infinitely more important in the eye of the world, a very affluent fortuneAt the age of twenty one I married the most amiable of men, with whom I lived in an uninterrupted round of felicity for fix and thirty years: daring that period we had four fons and three daughters, who are fall provided for, both plendidly and fortunately in the world, and enjoy the fulleft fweets of opulence in the midst of the most perfect content,ures was reduced fo low by the conflict my of and feemed of my Providence, however, which defigned that I fhould fran ed that I fhould fand a warning to my fex, to the furprize of my whole fainily, worked a miracle aloft in favour My now. 1997 SA my ny health, and dyrecovered and in about three months I was fo perfectly that I came up to town poten not only to have left every indifpofition behind, but the principal marks of my age too; in thort, every body complimented me on the life of my looks, and raked the latent embers of vanity, which had a long, long time lain mothered in my heart, with fo much fuccefs together, that upon a fecret confultation with my own wishes, I not abfolutely conclude but I could might be yet prevailed upon to change my condition, and make a fecond venture on the fmooth ocean of that state which rendered my life fuch a bleffing in the firft. The moment a thought of this nature comes into the breaft of an old woman, it clings like Cleopatra's afps, and most commonly ftings her to death. For my own part, though I felt a fecret repugnance at the notion of another husband, yet the idea ftuck clofe to my imagination, and I even fometimes endeavoured to perfuade myself that this honeft averfion, which in spite of me, my confcience would retain, was nothing but a prejudice of edu cation or cuftom, which it was highly meritorious to fubdue. My memory was rantacked for inftances where woЛtant? tbeath of comfort with a glance; men in my circumstances had married a fecond time, with handfome young The man with whom had lived fo happily and fo long, tell ill of a fever, lows too, yet lived extremely happy. and died in ten days. My diftraction notwithstanding the vulgar and abomiat his lola was inexprefible, yet when nable fuppofition, that nobody could my future conduct comes to be menti,entertain a palhon for a woman in I found even oned, Tmhall be fafpected of disingenu. years. Nay, madam, for of my ity, it fay bwas concerned at it at all; texts of Scripture in but believe me, I felt every thing a wo favourite opinion, and abfolutely forced * man enduredɛ with a molt exquilite fen- myjelf to believe that I was obliged, by fibility could poflibly expericace on to the very principles of religion, to tender and afflicting anboccafion, and make another choice. To sunitno #Low vnd JJG & DRUNK lood About sine months ago, madam, 900 than 4 had not furvived to recollect na time that now brings bafilifks to my imagination, and murders the most dif fel While ار 29104 While I was thus debating, madam, and I fell lifeless on the floor.-Not to my fon Edward, who is a colonel in the tire your patience, madam,-upon exarmy, brought a young fellow of his amining into every thing, and fending acquaintance to fup at my houfe. I to the monirhe flatly refufed either to don't kngwißow it was," I fancied fend me a thilling, of evertohabit with he was the loft handsome I had fo ftale apardel of mortality that was ever fech in my life, his converfation his decent expreffion) ag. In this insty fall វ៉ន too was fare legant, and he paid to pro- fituation my eldest daughter came and found a deference to my opinion, that conducted me to her houfe, generously I did not Beepishame upon my anti- foothing me in the renderelt manner, quated eyelidea fingle wink the but wounding me however a thousand whole night. What need I trefpafs on times more by her goodness than the your patience, major Ravage repeated could poffibly do by feiring the oppor his vifits, began to find he was far from tunity to load me with complaints. difagreeable, and in fhort made an of. I am now going to fue foss Teparate fer of his hand in fuch terms as I was maintenance, and fall convince the wholly unable to refift. Without ever grey-headed fucklings of tfy fex, that enquiring into his character or his cir- ́an old woman, who marmes cumstances, I confented to be his at fellow, if the even thould meet with a an age that would have become me to worthy one, can never exject to be wait upon my grand-children, and flat. treated with any tendernels of regard, tered myself that his affection might be and that on the other hand, if the engaged to my perfon, at the very mo- fents to wed a villain, the can look for ment I might have known it to be en nothing but an endless scene poverty tirely created by my pure. My poor and contempt; where the de molt for first husband imagining that, t, as I had tunate in her choice, neglect and ridibeen a faithful wife to him, I should cule must con 'be a tender mother to his children, left the happen her portion, and where be otherwife, the public fcorn of the world will be aggravated by a continual round of private wretche edness and diftrefs. me in poffeffion of 50,000l. and a join- My children you may be fure would 1 eved bdw From the LADY'S Magazine. Ved H 2 An Effay on HEALTH. bas rouge! it to for ad EALTH is univerfally allowed£ to be the greateft of all fublant ry bleffings, as there can be no enjoy-s ment of life without are there that fet a proper value on that how few ed it yet b ineftimable jewel, while they have it in poffeffion; but no fooner are deprived b of it, than they become thoroughly fen fible of the lofs they have fuftained, ando ( would give up any of thofe pleasures th they have facrificed it to, were it, poffu to tre ble to recover fo great a treasure bur alas! few are to happy as to fucceed ins their endeavours; the poor labourer ands his family are generally more healthy than perfons of rank and fortune; the caufe 97 t d Ferra موظ the cause of it is plain, the peafant rifes early, his labour procures him an appetite to his mealss which he partakes petite to his meals, which he partakes of 1 temperance and fobriety, this enables him to continue his work cheerfully and his industry is crowned with that weet deep, which is aftranger to a life of perpetual diffipation and to this we may attribute that happy flow of spirits, which gave vife to that faying of, content's being oftener found in cottages them in courts." Is not the fine lady, who spends her nights at the hazard-table, and her mornings in bed, whenever the allows herself time for reflection, a prey to the spleen and vavours? the is confcious of having in jured her health, and impaired her beauty, yet can't prevail upon herfelf to renounce her darling foibles the bloom of health is certainly as great an addition to beauty, as midnight revels are foes to both, and to acquire that bloom 1. Would ye you fair, with health your charins adorn, man fhould confider how many peoples happinets depends upon his health, and how how wretched his neglecting an affair of fo much importance for them,must make his wife and children. There are foinanyways in which men may be of fervice to the publick, that it is incumbent on them to preferve their healthy for the good of mankind in general. A good example from a perfon in a high tation is of great utility, as it may induce their dependents to follow it A cultivated genius, may find out many useful inventions in the arts or fciences, which may be of univerfal emolument or apply himfelf to the study of polite literature, and be very beneficial to fociety; but as none of thefe acquirements can be brought to any degree of perfection, by perfons that are not in a good ftate of health, the prefervation of that invaluable blerfing thould be carefully attended to, as highly conducive to every defirable at tainment in this life. Health, a kind gift from heaven fent, Rife with the lark, and hail the crimson When added to a mind content, To fome fair hill, or verdant lawn repair, pofition, as none can imagine, but those nefs, one cerfulness of dif. And yield true joys which : From the LADY'S MAGAZINE, Some Maxims of Ninon de L'Enclos. 13.. of pleasure while thofe who rife early, WHEN corruption, lader with are-trififpofted with those beauties of indigence, it is rarely fhutLove is a gold, knocks at the door of the morn, which many people are whol- perpetual paradox; nothing is fo varied ly unacquainted with. Early rifing, re- in nature as its pleafures, though they tiring foon to rest, temperance, fobriety, are ever the fame. A beauty without and moderate exercise, are the great graces, is a hook without aɔbaio. A prefervatives of health, and confequent- woman of fenfe thould never take allover ly of life; and as the welfare of every without the content of her heart, nor individual promotes the good of the com-husband without the approbation of her munity, it is an indifpenfable, duty in reafonThere are fouls of foydiftin every man to take care of his own health, guished a flamp, that they are capable in refpect to himself, his family, and of finding in love itfelf reafons for the advantage of fociety. A married loving on. 1 ว |