nationes dissimilibus linguis descendere; and the modest Pliny is content to add, et postea a nostris cxxx.

interpretibus negotia ibi gesta, (vi.

5) But the words nunc deserta cover a multitude of past fictions.] [Footnote 73: Buffon (Hist.Nat.tom.iii.p.

433--437) collects the unanimous suffrage of naturalists and travellers.

If, in the time of Herodotus, they were, (and he had observed them with care,) this precious fact is an example of the influence of climate on a foreign colony.] [Footnote 74: The Mingrelian ambassador arrived at Constantinople with two hundred persons; but he ate (sold) them day by day, till his retinue was diminished to a secretary and two valets, (Tavernier, tom.i.