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ACERBI-NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

[Incivilization of the Laplander.] "THE lake was surrounded with little hills covered with rein-deer moss, interspersed with woods of birch and fir. We were every where presented with the contrasted view described before, which acted so forcibly upon our imagination, that we could not but fancy ourselves upon some enchanted island. When we looked round us, we discovered nothing that resembled any country we had hitherto seen, and we seemed to be transported into a new world. The sun, which shone upon us, never sunk below our horizon; and we beheld almost no colour but white intermixed with green. These objects, joined to the habitation of the fishermen, the novelty of the flowers which ornamented the isle, that of the birds which made the woods resound with their notes, all contributed to astonish our senses, that had not anticipated such extraordinary scenes. Our tent, when set up, appeared to be the palace of the island, and was as strikingly superior to the hut of the Laplanders, as the residence of sovereign princes to the dwellings of their subjects. We got into our boat on purpose to take a survey of our situation from the lake, and we pleased ourselves with the contemplation of the magnificent appearance of our new kingdom. The inside of our tent was carpetted with birch-leaves strewed over the moss, which afforded a delicious perfume. Our fishermen seemed surprised at the splendour of our mansion, and for the first time had a pattern of luxury exhibited before them of which they had conceived no idea."-Ibid.

[The River Alten.]

"THE river of Alten we found one of the most beautiful we had yet viewed in the course of our travels. It is at its commencement a continued succession of lakes of different size and shapes, and interspersed with islets that are covered with the birch

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tree. These presented a scenery of landscape which, far from having a wild and harsh appearance, was such as might beseem a gentler climate. Those lakes inspired us with an inclination for bathing: their waters were clear as crystal, and their edges formed of the softest sand, which sloped by degrees into a greater and greater depth."-Ibid.

[Bog Iron Ore of the Assawampset Pond.]

"In the town of Middleborough, thirtyeight miles from Boston, we stopped a few moments on the banks of Assawampset pond, a lake six miles in length and three in breadth, whose deep coves, and bold and extensive promontories, present many beautiful scenes, agreeably diversified by wildness and cultivation. It is very shallow and its bottom consists of bog iron ore, which has been an article of commerce ever since its discovery in 1747. The lake is owned in seventy undivided shares by the assignees of the original settlers of the town. Any person may dig the ore, which is sold on the banks of the lake at from four to seven dollars per ton, according to its quality. The purchaser pays the further sum of one dollar per ton to the proprietors, and the ore is then smelted, and cast into hollow ware in this and the neighbouring towns. The quantity now dug here is much less than formerly, hardly exceeding one hundred tons a-year. We rode two miles along the western bank of this lake, and before we quitted it, saw on our right Long Pond, which in one place approaches so near it as to leave only a passage for the road between them.

"On Assawampset was committed the murder of Sausaman; the immediate occasion of the war between our ancestors and King Philip, professedly a war of extermination, in which the two parties, struggling for existence, displayed a foresight and sagacity in planning their military enterprises, and a rapidity, fearlessness, and perseve

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rance in executing them which render that age one of the most interesting periods of our history; though the occasional acts of perfidy and atrocity committed on both sides make it one of the least honourable." -North American Review, vol. 5, p. 313.

[Barbarity of the Indians of Cinaloa.]

"SOME of the Indians in Cinaloa had a most barbarous dexterity in decapitating their enemies, they dislocated the neck with a twist, and if they had no knife to cut with, the thumb nail was cultivated to serve as an instrument for cutting throats!-lo hazen con grande facilidad y destreza, torciendola, y desencaxando el huesso del celebro, la tronchan; y si o no tienen cuchillo para cortar la carne. O lo hazen con la uña del pulgar, que traen muy crecida."-P. ANDRES PEREZ DE RIBAS, 1. 2, c. 16,

p. 76.

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BRUCE-S. GREALL - MERLIN.

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it is situated, it is called Gardefan and | fant Mordrech seroit filz au Roy Loth commeans the Straits of Burial."—Ibid.

Ronsard makes Venus say in her Lament for Adonis.

“Je suis maintenant veufve, et porter je

ne veux

Ny des bagues aux doigts ny l'or en mes cheveux;

Et si veux pour jamais (tant la douleur me tue)

Que la mere d'Amour de noir soit revestue : Je veux que mon Ceston soit acoustré de noir,

Et que plus je ne porte en la main de miroir."-T. 4. p. 39.

[Graal, or, Greal,—Meaning of.] Graal or greal in the Langue Romane signifies a cup or dish.1

[King Loth.]

THE descent of King Loth of Orcanie from Perron, one of the companions of Joseph of Arimathea, is given in S. GREALL, pt. 1, ff. 115.

[King Loth's Children.]

"Si eut la femme au Roy Loth quatre enfans, cest assavoir Gauvain, Aggravain, Gaheret, Gaberiet, ces quatre enfans furent filz au Roy Loth: mais sa femme en eut encore ung qui fut nomme Mordrec, et lengendra le Roy Artus a Logres, quant il estoyt jeune escuyer et quil estoit encores avec son pere Arthor qui le nourrissoit, car qui la verité en sçauroit ou cuyderoit que len

1 See NARES's Glossary inv. GRAAL OF GRAYLE, and SANGRAAL or SAINT-GREAL. It is described

in the Romance next quoted as "L'escuelle ou le Fiex (Fils) Dieu avoit mengie”—J. W. W.

me les aultres.”—Merlin, 1, ff. 92.

The story is not to Arthur's credit,-but he knew not his own parentage at the time, and therefore the incest was committed ignorantly, and the adultery was innocent on the lady's part, for she thought Arthur had been her husband.

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PERCEVAL LE GALLOYS-J DUE TRISTANI.

AND again "Lors vint le Roy Boors a tout la grant enseigne paumoyant, dont le champ estoit pres a menues bendes de or froye de belic fait si delie comme homme vivant le eust sceu faire, a cinq longues langues."-Ibid.

[Knightly Dress.]

WHEN PERCEVAL is entertained by the old knight who instructs him in the use of arms, the good knight makes him lay aside the hempen shirt and leathern suit in which his mother had drest him. "Puis fist apporter chemises fines, braies de mesmes, et chausser de drap taint en bresil et escarlate, et robbe de soie de coulleur inde, la quelle estoit subtillement faicte et richement brodée." -ff. 10. PERCEVAL LE GALLOYS.

[Exquisite Beauty.]

"LA pucelle estoit si formellement belle, que Dieu ne nature ny avoit rien delaisse quelle ne fust en tout accomplie. Premierement les cheveulx sembloient mieulx estre de fin or que de poil, tant estoient luysans et bien colorez. Le fronc avoit hault et plain comme s'il fust faict de fine yvoire, Sourcilz brunetz assez menus. Les yeulx vers et rians en la teste avoit; ne trop grans ne trop petis. Le nez droit et estendu. Les joues blanches taintes de rougeur proporcionnée. Que vous diray je; tant fut de grant beaulte souverainement remplie, que je ne croy pas que Dieu en ait depuis forme une pareille."-Ibid. ff. 11.

[Knightly Collation.]

"CEPENDANT fist la collation apporter de confitures et espiceries, comme figues, et dactes, confites, noyz, muscades, girofile et grenades en dragće, electuaire doulx de gingembre alexandrin. Et tant d'aultres choses confites que nen ay sceu le nombre re

tenir. Apres furent les vins apportez de tant de diverse sorte que je ne lay peu retenir. Et en la fin fut lypocras tant claret que blanc apporte."—Ibid. ff. 19.

[Deserted Castles the Haunt of Assassins.]

"LI due Cavalieri fecero spianare il castello et torretta, ne si partirono di la per insino che'l videro desolato sino à fondamenti, si che non vi potesse restare memoria, il che parve loro il dovere di fare, però che castelli edificati ne deserti et asprezzi de monti, non servono ad altro che à ricetto d'assassini; onde il signore Dio viene ad essere sommamente offeso, et rei huomini ad essere salvi."-J DUE TRISTANI, ff. 80.

[The fabulous Story of K. Arthur referred to as true History.]

IN "the very Beggar's Petition against Popery, wherein they lamentably complain to K. Henry VIII. of the Clergy," speaking of the money which the Friars, Pardoners, and Somners obtained, it is said—“ the noble King Arthur had never been able to have carried his army to the foot of the mountains, to resist the coming down of Lucius the Emperor, if such yearly exactions had been taken of his people."-The story is referred to as true history.

[Splendour of a Novus Homo.]

"THE Spanish minister, Eusenada, a man without a foot of land, and not allied to any one that had, wore about his person on every gala day jewels nearly to the amount of £100,000.”—WALPOLE Papers. MSS.

[Robin Hood's Bottle.]

MR. RAYNER of Covent Garden theatre has become the purchaser, at a sale at St.

RAYNER-COTGRAVE - FULLER-TUSSER.

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malheur alors à celui qui tire."- Fundgruben des Orients, vol. 1, p. 248.

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[On a Leaden Bullet.]

"WHEN I look on a leaden bullet, therein I can read both God's mercy, and man's malice: God's mercy, whose providence foreseeing that men of lead would make instruments of cruelty, did give that metal a

medicinal virtue: as it hurts so it also heals; and a bullet sent in by man's hatred into a fleshly and no vital part, will with ordinary care and curing, out of a natural charity work its own way out. But oh! how devilish were those men, who to frustrate and defect his goodness, and to countermand the healing power of lead, first found the champing and impoisoning of bullets! Fools who account themselves honoured with the shameful title of being the inventors of evil things, endeavouring to out-infinite God's kindness with their cruelty." — FULLER'S Good Thoughts.

[Enactment against the Prognosticators of Elizabeth's Days.]

A STATUTE of the 5 Elizabeth sets forth,

Description de la Composition qu'on met dans it had been the practice of some malcon

les Canons.

tents, to prognosticate fortunes and events from colours, and changes, and crests, belonging to persons of quality; and that this conjectural presumption had made bold with the Queen herself. The penalty of doing this with an intention of raising any insurrection or public disturbance, is the forfeiture of ten pounds, and a year's im

"SAVOIR; Bardouk1 dix; charbon deux drachmes; soufre une drachme et demie. Pilez-le bien et remplissez-en precisement le tiers du canon. Faites faire un refouloir de bois chez le tourneur, suivant le calibre de l'embouchure du canon, et introduisez-le avec force. Vous y mettrez ensuite le boulet ou la flèche (incendiaire) et vous met-prisonment for the first, and the forfeiture trez le feu à la poudre contenue dans la of all goods and chattels for the second chambre du canon. Il doit être perforé à offence. la profondeur de la lumière, car s'il étoit perforé plus bas, ce seroit un défaut; et

1 Bardouk is supposed to be a corruption for Barout powder, unless there be, which is more probable, some mistake or omission of the word which should designate nitre.

[Wormwood used as an Antidote against Fleas.]

"WHILE Wormwood hath seed, get a handfull or twain

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