other Indians had alfo taken the alarm before the old priest had finished his interrogatories; nor did any of them feem more at ease, by the reft of us breaking out into a fudden and hearty laugh, till I explained to them that thofe were the bones of our own people, who had been executed for certain crimes committed by them, and were preserved there, that Mr. Hun er might better know how to fet those of the living, in cafe any of them should chance to be broken; which often happened in fo populous a country. They were then perfectly fatiffied, and approved of the practice; but Attuiock's nerves had received too great a fhock to enable him to refume his ufual tranquility, till he found himself safe in my house again.

Paffing through Hyde Park in our way to Holland Houfe, and obferving his Majefty looking at the regiment of Old Buffs, which were then going to Plymouth, we got out of the coach and went up to the front; where I explained to them the use of that body of men, and of the evolutions which they were performing. After his Majefty viewed the regiment collectively, the recruits were drawn out at a few paces diftant from the left flank, that he might examine them feparately. So great a crowd had gathered round us, as incommoded our view of the troops, and attracted the notice of the King, who then fent General Harvey to order me with the Indians, into the vacant fpace between the regiment and the recruits. Here his Majefty rode flowly paft them, and condefcended to falute them by taking off his hat, accompanied with a gracious fmile; honours which they were highly pleafed with, and often mentioned afterwards with great exultation. Nor were they in the leaft difpleased that his Majefty did not fpeak to them; fince I had previously told them not to expect it; and they obferved that he spoke to none but the commanding officer, and one or two of those who were in attend

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The face of the country did not pass unobserved by them, and their expreffion was "The land is all made," for they fuppofed that we had cut down the woods, and levelled the hills. In the former fuppofition they were certainly right; and I do not wonder at the latter, fince they would naturally fuppofe that all the world was like the small part of it which they had formerly feen; and which is almost an entire collection of hills covered with thick woods. As they had never before seen any cultivated land (except a few fmall gardens, which they obferved were dug with a fpade) they formed an idea of our immenfe numbers, by being able to till fo much land and confume the produce of it in a year; exclufive of the animal food with which they faw our tables and markets abounded. How the inhabitants of London were fupplied with food, I could never make them fully comprehend, any more than I could the number of people by which the metropolis was inhabited. Their arithmetic goes no higher than the number twenty-one; therefore, the best I could do, was to tell them, that a certain number of large whales would ferve them for one meal only. Nothing furprized them more, than to meet with a man who affured them he could not fhoot, had never killed an animal, nor feen the fea in his life.

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After my return to town, by his Majefty's permiffion, I took them to court; where their dreffes and behaviour made them greatly taken notice of. They were also at the houses of feveral of the nobi lity and people of fashion; and I omitted nothing, which came within the compafs of my pocket, to make their ftay in England agreeable, or to impress them with ideas of our riches and ftrength. The latter I thought highly neceffary, as they had often, when in Labrador, fpoken of our numbers with great contempt, and told me they were fo numerous, that they could cut off all the English with great ease, if they thought proper to collect themfelves together; an opinion which could not fail to produce in me very unpleasant reflections. But they had not been long in London before they confeffed to me, that the Efquimaux were but as one, compared to the number of the English.'

Having purchafed a brig of eighty tons, Mr. C. began to prepare for a fecond voyage. He was accompanied, as before, by Mrs. Selby his houfekeeper, the Indians, Mr. John Willians a furgeon, whom he had engaged alfo to ferve in the capacity of a clerk, his wife, a maid fervant, a cooper, two apprentice boys, a brace of greyhounds, a terrier, and fome tame rabbits.

The pleafing profpects which he had indulged were of a fhort duration. On the evening of the 13th of May, Caubvick, a female Indian, complained of great fickness at her ftomach, which daily grew worfe. At Lymington, her diforder was declared to be the fmall-pox; and, as it was in vain to expect that the reft fhould efcape the infection, preparative medicines were accordingly given to them. On the 220, Caubvick appeared to be out of danger. At the fame time, Ickcongoque, another Indian, began to ficken. On the 29th, fo dreadful a french pervaded the whole veffel, that there feemed reafon to apprehend that they would all be foon attacked with 2 peftilential fever. The Indians were all ill, and two of the fhip's crew were already indifpofed. Mr. C. therefore ordered the mafter to carry the veflel into Plymouth, although he forefaw that fuch a micafure would prove an immenfe' injury to his voyage. Having bargained for a houfe at two guineas and a half per week, Mr. C. removed the Indians, and procured for them every medical affiftance which Plymouth afforded: yet, melancholy to relate! Caubvick alone recovered. On the 16th of July, Mr. C. failed for Labrador. The hair of the Indian woman being much matted with the fmall-pox, it was by no means easy to prevail on her to part with that which the regarded as a principal ornament: nor, when cut off, would any intreaties, nor reprefentations of the danger to which fhe would expofe her countrymen, induce her to throw it overboard.

In fuch a cafe as this, we are forry that Mr. C. did not ulti mately use his authority; as, in the farther perufal of his Journal, REV. APRIL, 1794.

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we obferved a conjecture, founded on the knowlege of some facts, that the hair of this Indian was the means of communicating to her countrymen this fatal diforder.

On the 31st of Auguft, they reached the coaft of Labrador. The report of their arrival brought the three fouthernmost tribes of Efquimaux, amounting to about five hundred, to receive their long-expected friends, and to hear the wonderous ftories which they might have to relate.-We fhall give an account of the affecting fcene of their difappointment in the words of the author:

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I placed myfelf upon a rock near the water-fide, and Caubvick fat down a few paces behind me. We waited for the landing of the Indians with feelings very different from their's; who were hurrying along with tumultuous joy at the thoughts of immediately meeting their relations and friends again. As the fhore would not permit them to land out of their boats, they brought them to their anchors at a distance off, and the men came in their kyacks, each bringing two other perfons, lying flat on their faces; one behind and the other before, on the top of the skin covering. On drawing near the fhore, and perceiving only Caubvick and myfelf, their joy abated, and their countenances affumed a different afpect. Being landed, they fixed their eyes on Caubvick and me, in profound, gloomy filence. At length, with great perturbation and in faltering accents, they enquired, feparately, what was become of the reft; and were no fooner given to understand, by a filent, forrowful shake of my head, that they were no more, than they instantly fet up fuch a yell, as I had never before heard. Many of them, but particularly the women, fnatched up ftones, and beat themselves on the head and face till they became fhocking spectacles; one pretty young girl (a fifter to the late two men) gave herself fo fevere a blow upon the cheek-bone, that fhe bruifed and cut the flefh fhockingly, and almost beat an eye out. In short, the violent, frantic expreflions of grief were fuch as far exceeded my imagination; and I could not help participating with them fo far, as to fhed tears moft plentifully. They no fooner observed my emotion, than, miftaking it for the apprehenfions which I was under for fear of their refentment, they inftantly feemed to forget their own feelings, to relieve thofe of mine. They preffed round me, clafped my hands, and faid and did all in their power to convince me, that they did not entertain any fufpicion of my conduct towards their departed friends. As foon as the first violent tranfports of grief began to fubfide, I related the melancholy tale, and explained to them, as well as I could, the difcrder by which they were carried off; and pointed to Caubvick, who bore very ftrong, as well as recent, marks of it. They often looked very attentively at her, but, during the whole time, they never fpoke one word to her, nor fhe to them. As foon as I had brought the afflicting ftory to a conclufion, they affured me of their belief of every particular, and renewed their declarations of friendship. Their stay afterwards was but short; they prefently reimbarked, weighed their anchors, and ran across the harbour to Raft Tickle, where they landed and encamped: the rest

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of the afternoon and the whole of the night was spent in horrid yellings, which were confiderably augmented by the variety of echoes, produced from the multiplicity of hills furrounding the harbour, till the whole rung again with founds that almoft petrified the blood of the brig's crew and my new fervants.'

Having now reached the conclufion of the first volume, and of the fecond voyage, we fhall referve for a future review the confideration of the fecond and third volumes of this amuling Journal.

[To be continued.]

ART. III. Mr. Knight's Analytical Effay on the Greck Alphabet. [Article concluded from p. 16.]

WE E have already given an abridged account of the first five fections of this work. The fixth and feventh are devoted to the examination of fome (fuppofed) antient monuments produced by M. Fourmont in the French Academy of Belles Lettres and Infcriptions*, and of the Lacedæmonian decree against Timotheus, which has been lately republished feparately at Oxford by a learned and refpectable prelate.

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Mr. Knight's examination of the first of thefe fubjects tends to prove that the lifts of Spartan priefteffes, &c. which M. Barthelemy has endeavoured to illuftrate, are forgeries M. Fourmont. He informs us, that many of the objections, which he here ftates, were first put together for the use of M. D'Hancarville, author of the Recherches fur les Arts de la Grèce, whofe defence in reply to them his remaining obfervations are intended to answer.

Since these monuments, which, if they were genuine, would require particular notice in fuch a book as Mr. K.'s, are tacitly, throughout the work, rejected by him, it doubtless became his duty to declare his reafons for diffenting from fo many learned perfons, who have without fcruple appealed to thefe infcriptions as undoubted fpecimens of the most antient method of writing.

When M. Fourmont returned from Greece, he profeffed to have discovered a copy of the laws of Solon; and to have employed 2000 men in digging the ruins of Amycle, where he found monuments of greater antiquity than any hitherto known. Of thefe he publifhed a few fpecimens, but did not proceed; and he left his MSS. in the king's library, whence other fpecimens have been published in the Traité Diplomatique, by

Tom. XXIII. p. 394-421. At the end of the volume, are added fac-fimiles of the infcriptions, which are alfo copied at the end of Mr. K.'s Effay.

the Benedictines, and in the Memoires of the Academy, by Abbé Barthelemy. A large volume of MSS. is fhewn in the Jibrary but that, Mr. K. thinks, is not the collection which Count Caylus excufes the Academy for not publishing, on account of the enormous expence which it would require. This reafon Mr. K. treats as frivolous; and he thinks that a free examination of what is published will betray the concealed reafon for withholding the reft. He favs that the laws of Solon, and the 20co men employed at Amycle, are now given up; it being difcovered that all Peloponnefus would fcarcely have afforded fo many labourers; and he was informed by the late Mr. Stuart, who followed Fourmont, that Fourmont employed as many men as he could collect,-not to discover infcriptions, but to break in pieces thofe which were already brought to light*.

The infcriptions publifhed contain fpecimens of writing, from King Eurotas, feven generations † prior to the Trojan war, down to Philip of Macedon. We might therefore expect to find great variety in the form and ufe of the letters, but they appear to be the fame perfon's writing and compofition. M. Fourmont's Sigma, which is taken from the Gortynian medals, is really an Iota, and the title is to be read, Mr. K. fays, ΓΟΡΤΥΝΙ (for Γοξινίων) not ΓΟΡΤΥΝΣ. This conformity is badly explained by the permanence of the Lacedæmonian manners and cuftoms, which were twice changed during the above mentioned period; first by the invafion of the Dorians, and afterward by the inftitutions of Lycurgus. The forms of the bucklers, on which two of the infcriptions are engraven, are totally unlike the fimple round fhields of the antient Greeks; they are in abfurd and fanciful fhapes, and are unfit for purposes of defence.

Fourmont difcovered a temple dedicated to the Goddess ONGA or OGA, which no other traveller has been able to find. Wanting an antient name for the Lacedæmonians, he gave them, in his infcription, the title of IKTEPKEPATEEƐ, because Meurfius produces a fhort article from Hefychius, Γκτευκρατεῖς. Λάκωνες. and concludes that the Lacedemonians were once called IXTExpaTeis. Fourmont alters the orthography a little: (perhaps he intended to read IKETEOKEPATIEΣ.} but the learned men who have lately edited Hefychius agree in fuppofing that a Laconic word has been joined to its

* If these facts be authentic, we, for our part, fhould scarcely defire more evidence to perfuade us that the infcriptions in queftion are forgeries; fince, of thefe three circumftances, the first two fhew the moit deliberate falfification, and the third manifefts a violent dread of detection.

+ Paufan. Lacon. five Lib. III. p. 200, 205.

explication;