Fig.1. Represents the Eyes and Talons of the House Spider. 2.The Garden Spider that keeps inthe Air in the midst of hereb 3.The black Spider that dwells in the holes of old Walls. 4.The Wandring Spider that doth not keepina Nest like the

other Spiders but goes in pursuit of flies and other insects 5.The Head& Eyes of the Field Spider commonly callity Spinner 6.6. The Tarantula.

7. A Spider inverted, to shew the Papilla or Nipples of her Anus which she makes use of for Spinning.

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When the day arrived, the magnificence in which the bridegroom was arrayed, amazed all Caffraria. Over his fhoulders was caft a kroffe or mantle of wild cat-fkins: He cut fandals for his feet from the raw hide of an elephant ; he hunted down a leopard, and of the fpotted fur formed a fuperb cap for his head; he girded his loins with the in

teftines, and the bladder of the beaft he blew up and faftened to his hair.

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His hair, which he could put on and take off at pleasure I, was white as the bloffoms of the almond tree, and bushy as the fleece of the ram. His lips and cheeks resembled the red oker, and, his nofe was fharpened like the beak of an eagle. His language, which was rough and inartiAculate, was as the language of beats;

Nor was Knonmquaiha lefs employed in adorning her perfon. She made a varnifh of the fat of goats mixed with foot, with which the anointed her whole body as the ftood beneath the rays of the fun : Her locks were clotted with melted greafe, and B powdered with the yellow duft of Buchu: Her face, which fhone like the polished ebony, was beautifully varied with spots of red earth, and appeared like the fable curtain of the night befpangled with stars: She Sprinkled her limbs with wood ashes, and perfumed them with the dung of the Stinkbingfem. Her arms and legs were entwined with the fhining entrails of a heifer: From her neck there hung a pouch composed of the ftomach of a kid: The wings of an oftrich overshadowed the fleshy promontories behind; and before the wore an apron formed of the fhaggy ears of a lion.

nor could Tquaffouw difcover his meaning, till a Hottentot (who at the firft coming of thefe people had been taken prifoner, and had aftetwards made his efcape) interpreted between them. This interpreter informed the prince, that the ftranger was fent from his fellow countrytheir territories, and that he was called men to treat about the enlargement of among them Mynheer Van Snickerfnee.

Tquaffouw, who was remarkable for his humanity, treated the favage with extraordinary benevolence. He fpread a mantle of theep-fkins anointed with fat for his bed, and for his food he boiled in their own blood the tripes of the fatteft Cherds, that grazed in the rich pastures of the Heykoms. The ftranger in return instructed the prince in the manners of the favages, and often amufed him with fending fire from a hollow engine, which rent the air with thunder. Nor was he lefs ftudious to please the gentle Knonmquaiba. He bound bracelets of circled her neck with beads of glafs : polished metal about her arms, and en

The chiefs of the feveral Kraals, who were fummoned to affift at their nuptials, D formed a circle on the ground, fitting upon their heels, and bowed their heads between their knees in token of reverence. In the centre the illuftrious prince with his fable bride repofed upon foft cushions of cow-dung. Then the Surri or chief priest approached them, and in a deep voice chaunted the nuptial rites to the melodious grumbling of the gom-gon; and at the fame time (according to the manner of Caffraria) bedewed them with the urinary benediction. The bride and bridegroom rubbed in the precious stream with extafy; while the briny drops trick. led from their bodies, like the oozy furge from the rocks of Chirigriqua.

The Hottentots had feen the increase F and wane of two moons fince the happy union of Tquaffouw and Knonmquaiha, when the Kraals were fuprifed with the appearance of a most extraordinary perfonage, that came from the favage people who rofe from the feat, and had lately fixed themselves on the borders of Caf

fraria. His body was enwrapped with ftrange coverings, which concealed every part from fight except his face and hands. Upon his fkin the fun darted his fcorching rays in vain, and the colour of it was pale and wan as the watry beams of the moon,

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He filled the cocoa-fhell with a delicious liquor and gave it her to drink, which exhilarated her heart, and made her eyes fparkle with joy: He also taught her to kindle fire thro' a tube of clay § with the dried leaves of Dacha, and to fend forth rolls of odorous fmoke from her mouth. After having fojourned in the Kraals for the space of half a moon, the ftranger was difmiffed with magnificent prefents of the teeth of elephants; and a grant was made to his countrymen of the fertile meadows of Kochoqua, and the forests of Stinkwood, bounded by the Palamite river.

nued to live together in the moft cordial Tquaffouw and Knonmquaiha contiaffection; and the Surris every night invoked the great Gounja Ticquoa, who illuminates the moon, that he would give an heir to the race of N'oh and Hingn'oh. The princefs at length manifefted the happy tokens of pregnancy; her waist encreafed daily in circumference, and fwelled like the gourd. When the time of her delivery approached, the was committed to the care of the wife women, who placed her on a couch of the reeking entrails of a cow newly flain, and to facilitate the birth gave her a potion of the milk

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milk of wild affes, and fomented her loins with the warm dung of elephants. When the throes of child-birth came on, a terrible hurricane howled along the coaft, the air bellowed with thunder, and the face of the moon was obfcured as with a veil. The Kraal echoed with fhrieks and lamentations, and the wife women cried out, that the princess was delivered of a moniter.

wolves to the moon, he defcried the paunch that contained the precious relicks of Knonmquaiha, dancing on a wave, and floating towards him. Thrice he cried out with a lamentable voice, bo, bo, bo: Then fpringing from the cliff, he darted like the eagle foufing on his Aprey. The paunch burft in funder beneath his weight; the green wave was difcoloured with the gore; and Tquaffouw was inveloped in the mafs. He was heard of no more; and it was be lieved, that he was fnatched up into the

The product of her womb white. They took the child, and washed him with the juice of aloes:-They exposed his limbs to the fun, anointed them with the fat, and rubbed them with the excrement of black bulls? . But his fkin ftill retained its detefted hue, and B

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Her battered limbs, now without form and diftinction, were inclofed in the paunch of a rhinoceros, which was faftened to the point of a bearded arrow, and G fhot into the ocean. Tquaffouw remained inconfolable for her lofs: He frequently climbed the lofty cliffs of Chirigriqua, and caft his eyes on the watry expanfe. One night, as he stood howling with the

See the Man of the Western Parts, in our Mag, fær June lat,

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food, was expofed to, and received all the enemy's fire, and it was the part where the man was killed, and the reft wounded. I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the found.

Letter from Virginia, dated June 8, among other things, brought the following Account of the fame Engagement.

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From the WORLD, Aug. 22.

T has been from that school of nature,

Ithe flower garden, that I have pro

cured the best part of my philofophy; and from this too have I learnt to improve and confirm my morals. The volume of nature is fo full of paffages above the explication of human learning, that the best proof of our having studied it with diligence and fuccefs, muft confift chiefly, in our being able to produce from it any inftances of our ignorance; and I have the vanity, or I should rather fay the modefty to boast, that I have difcovered difficulties enough in one fingle leaf of it, to clear my understanding from the influence of a conceited fufficiency, and to improve my reafon into a perfect diffidence of its utmost penetration. Nor have I a flower in my poffeffion that is lefs abounding in moral inftruction, than in beauty and fweetnefs. I cannot obferve that induftrious nicety with which the bee examines into every thing that comes in his way, without confidering it as a reproachful admonition to myself: And if I do not collect fome useful leffon, that may support me under all the enfuing revolutions of my life, from every flower that fuch an infect can extract provision from against the future exigencies of his ; I am ready to place it to the account of D my negligence, and to think myself guilty of the most unpardonable folly, in fuffering him alone to profit from that, which I affume the abfurd privilege of calling my own.

UR Ohio expedition takes up most of our converfation here at prefent. Our forces are getting ready as fast as poffible, in order to oppofe the speedy progress of the French, who are already got as far as Dogs-Town, and fortifying themselves in the strongest manner. Their numbers are uncertain being so dispersed; but are fuppofed to be above 1000 at leaft. There are at prefent 400 of our men within two days march of a party of the enemy. The week before laft Major Washington, who is in the van of our army, having had information from fome Indians, that there was a party of 35 French, all picked men, within a day's march of him, in order to intercept our waggons with provifions for the army, went in queft of them, with a detachment of 45 men, who were afterwards joined by the half king and 12 Indians. The day following they came up with the enemy, encamped in. a Savanna, when an engagement enfued, which lafted about eight minutes. The French had 11 killed on the spot, and 21 taken prifoners (who are now earried to Williamsburgh) and the remaining three being purfued and taken, were fcalped by the Indians. Our own party had only one killed, and two men and one Indian wounded. This half E king, who is a very confiderable monarch amongst the Indians, after the engage-. ment was over, infifted on having all the fcalps of the prisoners, but was at last diffuaded from this piece of cruelty; however, he fent the fcaips of them that were killed with black belts of wampum, and the hatchet, to all his allies, ordering them to come to his affiftance, and telling them, that his brethren the Fngiith were now begun in earneft. As the forces are now drawing nigh one another, we daily expect to hear of an engagement. Amongst the prifoners is Monf. la Force, a man of great confequence among the French, as he understands and can speak aH the Indian languages, and his advices G were of great weight among the Indians. The rest of the prifoners were chiefly inhabitants of Quebec.

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In short, there is fuch a clofe affinity between a proper cultivation of a flowergarden and a right difcipline of the mind, that it is almoft impoffible for any thoughtful perfon that has made any proficiency in the one, to avoid paying a due attention to the other. That industry and care which are fo requifite to cleanse a garden from all forts of weeds, will naturally fuggeft to him how much more expedient it must be to exert the fame diligence in eradicating all forts of prejudices, follies and vices from the mind, where they will be as fure to prevail without a great deal of care and correction, as common weeds in a neglected piece of ground. And as it requires more pains to extirpate fome weeds than others, according as they are more firmly fixt, more numerous, or more naturalized to the foil; fo thofe faults will be found the most difficult to be fuppreffed, which have been of the longest growth, and taken the deepest roo which are most predominant in number, and most congenial to the constitution.