The Ladies Have As Much Beauty Here As In Other Places, But Bloom
And Softness Are Not To Be Expected Among The Lower Classes, Whose
Faces Are Exposed To The Rudeness Of The Climate, And Whose
Features Are Sometimes Contracted By Want, And Sometimes Hardened
By The Blasts.
Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or work-
shops, even where no real hardships are suffered.
To expand the
human face to its full perfection, it seems necessary that the mind
should co-operate by placidness of content, or consciousness of
superiority.
Their strength is proportionate to their size, but they are
accustomed to run upon rough ground, and therefore can with great
agility skip over the bog, or clamber the mountain. For a campaign
in the wastes of America, soldiers better qualified could not have
been found. Having little work to do, they are not willing, nor
perhaps able to endure a long continuance of manual labour, and are
therefore considered as habitually idle.
Having never been supplied with those accommodations, which life
extensively diversified with trades affords, they supply their
wants by very insufficient shifts, and endure many inconveniences,
which a little attention would easily relieve. I have seen a horse
carrying home the harvest on a crate. Under his tail was a stick
for a crupper, held at the two ends by twists of straw. Hemp will
grow in their islands, and therefore ropes may be had. If they
wanted hemp, they might make better cordage of rushes, or perhaps
of nettles, than of straw.
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