NOTES TO CIIIEDE IIAKOED,

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However defective these may be, they arapreferable lo the paradoxes of uicu who haveread supeiItcially of the ancients, and seennothing of the moderns, such as l)c Pauw;who , w hen he asserts that the British breedof horses is ruined by Newmarket, and thatthe Spartans were cowards in the held, betray*an equal knowledge of English horses and Spar-an men. Ills ^philosophical observations” havea much better claim to the title of « poetical.”It could not he expected that he who so libc-

when he next reside* „ fourteen years in the fac-tory,” will consult his Turkish dictionary, or askany. of his Stomboline acquaintance, he will dis-cover that,, Sulcrrtta'n re> on,’' put together d i sc redly,mean the „Swalio\itr of sublimitte, ” v'llhout any,, Sulcymnn " in the case; ,, Snleyma * signifying,,corrosive sublimate," and not being a proper nameon this occasion, although it he an orthodox nameenough with the addition of jt After \lr, Thorn-ton’s frequent hints of profound Orientalism, liemight have found this out before he »a»g auchpaeans over Hr. Pouquov.'llr,

Af'er this, I think „ Traveller* versus Klclnr*"shall hr our motto, though the above Mr. Thorntonhas condemned ,, hoc genus omui-, 1 ’ for mistakeand misrepresentation. „Nc Sutor ultra trepidant,",, No mercli*“t beyond his holes” N. It. For thebenefit of Mr. Tkorulou „ Sutor" is not a propername.