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SICILY AND MALTA. 95
to describe the whole, and a sad volume
indeed it would make. He has put the
heads of men to the bodies of every sort of
animal, and the heads of every other ani-
mal to the bodies of men. Sometimes he
makes a compound of five or six animals
that have no sort of resemblance in nature.
He puts the head of a lion to the neck of
a goose, the body of a lizard, the legs of a
goat, the tail of a fox. On the back of this
monster, he puts another, if possible still
more hideous, with sive or six heads, and
a bush of horns, that beats the beast in
the Revelations all to nothing. There is
no kind of horn in the world that he has
not collected; and his pleasure is, to see
them all iiourishing upon the same head.
This is a strange species of madness; and
it is truly unaccountable that he has not
been sliut up many years ago ; but he is
perfedly innocent, and troubles nobody by
the indulgence of his phrenzy; on the
contrary,
to describe the whole, and a sad volume
indeed it would make. He has put the
heads of men to the bodies of every sort of
animal, and the heads of every other ani-
mal to the bodies of men. Sometimes he
makes a compound of five or six animals
that have no sort of resemblance in nature.
He puts the head of a lion to the neck of
a goose, the body of a lizard, the legs of a
goat, the tail of a fox. On the back of this
monster, he puts another, if possible still
more hideous, with sive or six heads, and
a bush of horns, that beats the beast in
the Revelations all to nothing. There is
no kind of horn in the world that he has
not collected; and his pleasure is, to see
them all iiourishing upon the same head.
This is a strange species of madness; and
it is truly unaccountable that he has not
been sliut up many years ago ; but he is
perfedly innocent, and troubles nobody by
the indulgence of his phrenzy; on the
contrary,