fight on Horse-back, if there had been need, though they were used to Foot-service before; and we know amongst the _Romans_, their Foot-service was quite another thing from Horse-service. But if you say, _Cæsar_’s Design was only to horse his Men for Carriage, but to make use of their Service on Foot, certainly he had run a great Hazard thereby, if when _Ariovistus_’s choice Horse were within a Stone’s Call of the _Romans_, and might have fallen upon them, the Legion was then to dismount their Horses, to be disposed of, and ranged into a _Foot-Tertia_, or Brigade, in an instant: With us, this would seem very absurd. However it be, this is certain, that experienced Soldiers will manage a Fight after a different Order than we do; so the _Romans_ did of old, and so the _Turks_ do at this Day, with too good Success. So much for that Subject. I return, further to acquaint you, how indulgent the _Turks_ are to all irrational Animals. ’Tis true, a Dog is counted an obscene and nasty Creature by them, and therefore they will not harbour him in their Houses; but they nourish a Cat as a chaster and modester Creature, in their Judgments. This Custom they received from _Mahomet_, their Law-giver, who was so much in love with a Cat, that, when one of them fell asleep upon his Sleeve, as he was reading at a Table, and the time of his Devotion drew near, he caused his Sleeve to be cut off, that he might not awake the Cat by his going to the Mosque. However, though the _Turks_ have so ill an opinion of Dogs, that they wander up and down the City of _Constantinople_, and have no certain Masters, so that they are Keepers of Streets and Lanes, rather than of any certain House, and they live upon the Offal which is cast out of their Houses; yet, if they see any Bitch great with young, in their Neighbourhood, they give it Bones, and some Relicks of their Table: This they count an office of Pity amongst them. When, on this Account, I blamed them for performing such Offices to a _Brute_, which they would hardly do to a _Man_, though a reasonable Creature, like themselves, and to be sure, not to a _Christian_; their Answer was, that God had given Reason to Man, as a Fence against all Perils, and yet he did abuse it, so that if any Inconvenience or Trouble happened to him, it was his own Fault, and therefore he deserved less Pity: But God had bestowed no Boon on Brutes, but some natural Notions and Appetites, which of Necessity they must obey; and therefore they were to be relieved by Man’s Help and Commiseration; and for this Reason they take it very ill, if any brute Creature be put to Torment at his Death, or that Men should take any Pleasure in tormenting them. This had like to cost a _Venetian_ Goldsmith, that lived here, very dear, of late. The Story is worth telling. This Goldsmith did delight in the art of Fowling, and among other Birds, he once took one about the bigness of a Cuckow, and almost of the same Colour; he had no great Beak, but his Jaws were so