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23 of fire, which they hift from hand to hand: many walk, with bare feet on harp iron pikes fixed in a kind of andal: everal of their order turn their faces over one houlder, and keep them in that ituation till they fix for ever, their heads looking backward: another feet clench their fits very hard, till the nails of the fingers growinto the palms, and appear through the back of their hands, ind numbers, who never peak, turn their eyes to the point of the noe, loing the power of looking in any other direction. Thee lat pretend to ee what they call the acred fire. Strange as this auterity may eem, if accompanied with purity of intention, it mut be conidered by the unprejudiced, as les offenive to the Deity,