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 Ut ore inquit, & manibus, & ſinu caſtus, & innocens ſit homo, & c." St. Auſt. de moribus Manichæorum.

(9.) "When the natives of the Canary Ilands, who were called Guanchos, wanted rain, or had too much, or in any other calamity, they brought their ſheep, and goats into a place appointed, and ſevering the young ones from their dams, raiſed a general bleating amongſt them, which they imagined would appeaſe the wrath of the Supreme Power, and incline him to ſend them what they wanted." Aſtley's Voyages, vol. i. p. 549.

(10.) Pronaque cum ſpectent animalia cætera terram Os homini ſublime dedit, cælumque videre Juſſit & erectos ad ſidera tollere vultus. Ovid. Metam. Lib. I. Fab. 2. (11.) Æger