three years. The fupernumerary rams are not cut, but fold; it being thought more advantageous to fell them young, than to keep them three years without profit, and at fome hazard. This may anfwer in a country where fat mutton is of little value; but the fhepherds of the Alps would be of a very different opinion. All the Duke's flocks are of the fpecies called Pecore Gentili, whofe wool is very fine and white, and was much efteemed by the ancients. This is the great fource of his profits; for they are fhorn twice in the year; once entirely in fpring, but only half in fummer; and the wool is fold raw. Some profit also arifes from the cheeses, which are excellent; but probably would neither be fo good, or keep fo long, if goat's milk were not employed in preparing them. Salt is never given to the Duke's fheep, and great care is taken not to drive them upon the pastures in the morning, until the dew be off the grass. EXTRAORDINARY RELATION. Taken from Travels into South America, from 1772, to 1777; by Captain G. Stedman. I cannot here forbear relating a fingular circumftance refpecting myself, viz. that on waking about four o'clock this morning in my hammock, I was extremely alarmed at finding myfelf weltering in congealed blood, and without feeling any pain whatever. Having started up, and run for the furgeon, with a fire-brand in one hand, and all over besmeared with gore; to which, if added, my pale, fhort hair, and tattered apparel, he might well ask the question: "Be thou a fpirit of health or goblin damn'd, "Bring with thee airs of heaven, or blafts from hell:" The mystery however was, that I had been bitten by the vampire or spectre of Guiana, which is alfo called the flying-dog of New Spain, and by the Spaniards, penovolador; penovolador; this is no other than a bat of a monftrous fize, and fucks the blood of men and cattle when they are faft afleep, even fometimes till they die; and as the manner in which they proceed is truly wonder. ful, I shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it. Knowing by inftin&t that the perfon they intend to attack is in a found flumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, fo very small indeed that the head of a pin could fcarcely be received into the wound, which is confequently not painful; yet through this orifice he continues to fuck the blood, until he is obliged to difgorge. He then begins again, and thus continues fucking and difgorging till he is fcarcely able to fly, and the fufferer has often been known to fleep from time into eternity! Cattle they generally bite in the ear, but always in fuch place where the blood flows fpontaneously, perhaps in an artery-but this is entering rather on the province of the medical faculty. Having applied tobacco-afhes as the best remedy, and washed the gore from myself and from my hammock, I observed feveral small heaps of congealed blood all round the place where I had lain, upon the ground: upon examining which, the furgeon judged that I had loft at least twelve or fourteen ounces during the night. As I have fince had an opportunity of killing one of these bats, I cut off his head. Having measured this creature, I found it to be between the tips of the wings thirty-two inches and a half; it is faid that fome are above three feet, though nothing like in fize to the bats of Madagascar. The colour was a dark brown, nearly black, but lighter under the belly. Its afpect was truly hideous upon the whole, but particularly the head, which has an erect shining membrane above the nose, terminating in a fhrivelled point: the ears are long, rounded, and tranfparent: the cutting teeth are four above and fix below. I faw no tail, but a fkin, in the middle of which was a tendon. It had four toes on each wing, with sharp nails, divided like the web-foot of a duck; and on the extremity of each pinion, where the toes are joined, was a nail or claw, to affift it in crawling, like thofe of its hinder-feet, by which it hangs fufpended when afleep, to trees, rocks, and roofs. SHOCKING INSTANCE OF CRUELTY. FROM THE SAME. A Mrs. S, going to her eftate in a tent barge, a negro woman with her fucking-child happened to be paffengers, and were feated on the bow or fore-part of the boat. The child crying, for pain perhaps, or fome other reason, could not be hushed; Mrs. S-, offended with the cries of this innocent little creature, ordered the mother to bring it aft, and deliver it into her hands; then in the prefence of the distracted parent, the immediately thruft it out at one of the tiltwindows, where the held it under water till it was drowned, and then let it go. The fond mother, in a ftate of defperation, inftantly leapt overboard into the ftream, where floated her beloved offspring; in conjunction with which he was determined to finish her miferable existence. In this, however, he was prevented, by the exertions of the negroes who rowed the boat, and was punished by her miftrefs with three or four hundred lafhes for her daring temerity! THE THE BEAUTIES OF THE LATE MARY WOOLLSTONCRAFT GODWIN, Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." CAREFULLY SELECTED FROM HER VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS, For the Entertainment and Inftruction of the rifing Generation. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb BEATTIE. (From MARY, a Fiction.) MARY'S CHARACTER. EAR to her father's houfe was a range of moun were, speaking, cloud-capt, for on them clouds continually refted, and gave grandeur to the profpect; and down many of their fides the little bubbling cafcades ran till they fwelled a beautiful river. Through the ftragging trees and bushes the winds whiftled, and on them the birds fung, particularly the robins: they alfo found fhelter in the ivy of an old caftle, a haunted one, as the ftory went; it was fituated on the brow of one of the mountains, and commanded a view of the fea. This caftle had been inhabited by fome of her ancestors; and many tales had the the old houfe-keeper told her of the worthies who had refided there. When her mother frowned, and her friend looked cool, fhe would fteal to this retirement, where human foot feldom trod-gaze on the fea, obferve the grey clouds, or liften to the wind which struggled to free itfelf from the only thing that impeded its courfe. When more cheerful, the admired the various difpofitions of light and fhade, the beautiful tints the gleams of funfhine gave to the diftant hills; then the rejoiced in exiftence, and carted into futurity. One way home was through the cavity of a rock covered with a thin layer of earth, juft fufficient to afford nourishment to a few ftunted fhrubs and wild plants, which grew on its fides, and nodded over the fummit. A clear ftream broke out of it, and ran amongst the pieces of the rocks fallen into it. Here twilight always reigned-it feemed the Temple of Solitude; yet, paradoxical as the affertion may appear, when the foot founded on the rock, it terrified the intruder, and infpired a ftrange feeling, as if the rightful fovereign was diflodged. In this retreat the read Thompson's Seafons, Young's Night Thoughts, and Paradife Loft. At a little diftance from it were the huts of a few poor fishermen, who fupported their numerous children by their precarious labour. In thefe little huts fhe frequently rested, and denied herself every childish gratification, in order to relieve the neceflities of the inhabitants. Her heart yearned for them, and would dance with joy when she had relieved their wants, or afforded them pleasure. In thefe purfuits fhe learned the luxury of doing good; and the fweet tears of benevolence frequently moistened her eyes, and gave them a sparkle which, exclufive of that, they had not; on the contrary, they were rather fixed, and would never have been obferved if her foul had not animated them. They were not at all like thofe brilliant ones which look like polifhed dia monds, |