Philosophic essays on the manners of various foreign animals; with observations on the laws and customs of several eastern nations / Written in French by M. Foucher d'Obsonville, ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft.

  • Foucher d'Obsonville, 1734-1802
Date:
1784
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Credit: Philosophic essays on the manners of various foreign animals; with observations on the laws and customs of several eastern nations / Written in French by M. Foucher d'Obsonville, ; and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3^8 ] vermin of their friend. Thefe laft careffes, which are tokens of folicitude, tendernefs, and gallantry, are obfervable among the women of many favage people : affected by the fame fentiments, they exprefs them after the fame manner. The modulations of voice in the Mon- key are the very reverfe of melodious ; yet mufic, or if you pleafe, the noife of in- ftruments, beat or touched in equal time, feems to make a powerful and agreeable im- preffion on their organs. Every time that Indian, and fometimes when European foldiers, march to the found of inftruments, either near the temples or places where they are a little familiarized, or even in the uninhabited cantons, immediately young and old, male and female, run to the edges • of the rocks, or the extreme branches of trees. The old ones crouch and admire, trembling a little; but the others utter gentle cries of tranfport, jumping and gam- bolling in proportion as fuch a noify fym- phony approaches their ears. M. de Mai- fonpre.
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