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8o A TOUR THROUGH
mate or constitutions; but she appeared still
more surprised when I told her that we lost
many of our finest women in childbed, and
that even the most fortunate and easy de-
liveries were attended with violent pain and
anguish.—She lamented the fate of our
ladies, and thanked Heaven that she was
horn a Sicilian.
What this Angularity is owing to, let
the learned determine; but it is surely one
of the capital blessings of these climates,
where the curse that was laid upon mother
Eve seems to be entirely taken off: I don't
know how the ladies here have deserved this
exemption, as they have at least as much
both of Eve and the serpent as ours have,
and still retain their appetite, as strong as
ever, sor forbidden fruit.-—It seems hard,
that in our own country, and in Switzer-
land, where the women in general are the
chastest in Europe, that this curse should
fall the heaviest: it is probably owing to
the
mate or constitutions; but she appeared still
more surprised when I told her that we lost
many of our finest women in childbed, and
that even the most fortunate and easy de-
liveries were attended with violent pain and
anguish.—She lamented the fate of our
ladies, and thanked Heaven that she was
horn a Sicilian.
What this Angularity is owing to, let
the learned determine; but it is surely one
of the capital blessings of these climates,
where the curse that was laid upon mother
Eve seems to be entirely taken off: I don't
know how the ladies here have deserved this
exemption, as they have at least as much
both of Eve and the serpent as ours have,
and still retain their appetite, as strong as
ever, sor forbidden fruit.-—It seems hard,
that in our own country, and in Switzer-
land, where the women in general are the
chastest in Europe, that this curse should
fall the heaviest: it is probably owing to
the