haring mlaly extirpated these nauseous pracDelis true. I have seen two or three of the faces who had disguised their features

a pana la then it was merely to give a tinge of red to their checks, and did not look very fl; and as to ointment, they rarely use SIT DIT, EDDYgt ensinally a little Grecian oil for their hair, which gives it a glossy, greasy, and, as they think, rey emely appearance. The bat mendiced class of females, I take it for granted, have been but lately caught, and still rechin string traits of their original savage proPastes

The most durant and inexcusable fault, however, which I find in these lovely savages, is the shameless and abandoned exposure of their perཔང WE: though not suspect me of exaggeration when I affirm-wilt not thou blush for them, most discreet Mussulman, when I declare to thee -that they are so lost to all sense of modesty as to expose the whole of their faces from their forehead to the chin, and they even go abroad with their hands uncovered!-Monstrous indelicacy!

But what I am going to disclose will doubtless appear to thee still more incredible. Though I cannot forbear paying a tribute of admiration to the beautiful faces of these fair infidels, yet I must give it as my firm opinion, that their persons are preposterously unseemly. In vain did I look round me, on my first landing, for those divine forms of redundant proportions, which answer to the true standard of eastern beauty-not a single fat fair one could I behold among the multitudes

that thronged the streets: the females that passed in review before me, tripping sportively along, resembled a procession of shadows returning to their graves at the crowing of the cock.

This meagreness I first ascribed to their excessive volubility, for I have somewhere seen it advanced by a learned doctor, that the sex were endowed with a peculiar activity of tongue, in order that they might practise talking as a healthful exercise, necessary to their confined and sedentary mode of life. This exercise, it was natural to suppose, would be carried to great excess in a logocracy. "Too true," thought I, they have converted what was undoubtedly meant as a beneficent gift, into a noxions habit, that steals the flesh from their bones, and the rose from their cheeks-they absolutely talk themselves thin!" Judge, then, of my surprise, when I was assured, not long since, that this meagreness was considered the perfection of personal beauty, and that many a lady starved herself, with all the obstinate perseverance of a pious dervise, into a fine figure! " Nay more," said my informer, "they will often sacrifice their healths in this eager pursuit of skeleton beauty, and drink vinegar, eat pickles, and smoke tobacco, to keep themselves within the scanty outlines of the fashions."-Faugh! Allah preserve me from such beauties, who contaminate their pure blood with noxious recipes; who impiously sacrifice the best gifts of heaven to a preposterous and mistaken vanity. Ere long I shall not be surprised to see them scaring their faces like the negroes of

Congo, flattening their noses in imitation of the Hottentots, or, like the barbarians of Ab-al Timar, distorting their lips and ears out of all natural dimensions. Since I received this infor mation, I cannot contemplate a fine figure, without thinking of a vinegar cruet; nor look at a dashing belle, without fancying her a pot of pickled cucumbers ! What a difference, my friend, between those shades and the plump beauties of Tripoli,-what a contrast between an infidel fair one and my favourite wife, Fatima, whom I bought by the hundred weight, and had trundled home in a wheelbarrow!

But enough for the present; I am promised a faithful account of the arcana of a lady's toilette -a complete initiation into the arts, mysteries, spells, and potions, in short, the whole chemical process by which she reduces herself down to the most fashionable standard of insignificance; together with specimens of the strait waistcoats, the lacings, the bandages, and the various ingenious instruments with which she puts nature to the rack, and tortures herself into a proper figure to be admired.

Farewell, thon sweetest of slave-drivers! The echoes that repeat to a lover's ear the song of his mistress are not more soothing than tidings from those we love. Let thy answer to my letters be speedy; and never, I pray thee, for a moment, cease to watch over the prosperity of my house, and the welfare of my beloved wives. Let them want for nothing, my friend, but feed them plentifully on honey, boiled rice, and water gruel; so

that when I return to the blessed land of my fathers, if that can ever be, I may find them improved in size and loveliness, and sleek as the graceful elephants that range the green valley of Abimar.

Ever thine, MUSTAPHA.

SALMAGUNDI.

AUTUMNAL REFLECTIONS.

WHEN a man is quietly journeying downwards into the valley of the shadow of departed youth, and begins to contemplate in a shortened perspective the end of his pilgrimage, he becomes more solicitous than ever that the remainder of his wayfaring should be smooth and pleasant, and the evening of his life, like the evening of a summer's day, fade away in mild uninterrupted serenity. If haply his heart has escaped uninjured, through the dangers of a seductive world, it may then administer to the purest of his felicities, and its chords vibrate more musically for the trials they have sustained-like the viol, which yields a melody sweet in proportion to its age.

To a mind thus temperately harmonized, thus matured and mellowed by a long lapse of years, there is something truly congenial in the quiet enjoyment of our early autumn, amid the tranquillities of the country. There is a sober and chastened air of gaiety diffused over the face of nature, peculiarly interesting to an old man; and

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Was aber nice, therefore, by eulogismri vien teserving of approbation. And as Maders, simple Bik: make but one ENCOVOLI SI V nim ind sunshine-living in immcrime of the various nice studes w25 1 5xtinguish one fine day from anosher-I take the triable, from time to time, of leasing them in some of the secrets of nature,so wither be the better enabled to enjoy her beauties, with the rest of connoisseurs, and derive at boast as much information from my pages as from the Feather-wise lore of the almanack.