1 EMPLOYMENTS OF THE PEOPLE.
2 of romantic scenery and.cC lodAl enjoyincBi:. All Gieece, in the ag«^
3 of Homer, furnished wmpilMi: of the ^^une appomit inconaiitenfSjr;.
4 The Scottish border, in modem times, bore the same character, and.
5 the songs of its inhabitants, alternately exult in the pillage and hovoe.
6 of a (bray, and breathe the softest and tcndercst sentiments of love
7 and purity. Even the Arcndinns themselves, from whom we draw all
8 our notions of the gold- ri n'^a oi she|)lu i ds, were a warlike race, and
9 it was the mutual depredations of the little cantons into which Ar-
10 cadia ilividpd, that at length drove her shepherds tirom thein
11 flocks and mountains to the safety of walled towns. *
12 To return to the composition of Dooraunee camps, t ik h cump is
13 composed of men of one family, but there, are in each a rmmber of
14 Humsauyahs, chiefly Caukers and Ghiljies. They have sometimes
15 Taujiks, and mote fiieqiieatly Ehnmiks, among them, who work as
16 nnithB, caipentero, and (noelayers) buzgura. The eKisleiice; ofi tiheM
17 lart m tfa« eampa majaeem mnpriaing | but all the-nun lug hoidea.af
18 DoftMnmeaa cokivate a little ground* and they leave ihe.ciiarge of. it
19 to tfaeir huagim while they are abaent from their own: conntiyv.
20 Thej even, cany- on. a little - husbandry at thdr eiladn or'aqmnitf
21 »tationa> but k does not leem to gf> mudi beyond laiaing'nidbiisjani'
22 a yeiy small quantity of grain.
23 TheyaQ give ashareof the^increaae <^thflir<flo(^Cotlie'personin
24 whose landb.thcy.encamp while out of their own countiy.'.
25 Far the greatest .pert of their flocks canaiat m sheep-- TUey'^aiiBD:
26 keep goets» the numbers of whidk lu-c great or small in praportkn to.
27 the sheep, as the country is more or less hilly. In some parts, onei
28 third of the 'flock is composed of goats, in others they only keep a
29 few goats to lead the sheep in grazii)g. Those near the desart, and
30 those in easy circumstances, have camels on whidi they carry their
31 tents and baggage: thev sell the Tnale<< and rftain the females for.
32 breeding. The poor use bullocks and asses. Almost every man has
33 * I }io}X^ I shal] not \ye nndcnlood to WpWiqit d» Ai|^M01tt w it' di ' TOOTnh^ dtit*'
34 Arcadiaiu.of Pastoral Fbeoy.