ing a kind of show of this method of practice in real ones.
However, that may be, the various grimaces or contortions, leaps
and irregular steps, commonly used on this occasion, to be
executed to that sort of music, or airs adapted to it, might
afford a good subject for a grotesque dance, to be formed upon
the plan of a burlesque or mock-imitation: and I am not quite
sure that the idea of such a dance, has not been already carried
into execution.

The castanets the NEAPOLITANS most frequently use, are of the
largest size. It is also from Naples that we have taken the
Punchinello dance.

At FLORENCE, they have a dance, called, _il Treschone_. The
country-women, in the villages, are very fond of it. They are
generally speaking, very robust, and capable of holding out the
fatigue of this dance, for a long time. To make themselves more
light for it, they often pull off their shoes. The dance is
opened by a couple, one of each sex. The woman holds in her hand
a handkerchief, which she flings to him whom she chuses for her
next partner, who, in his turn has an equal right to dispose of
it in the same manner, to any woman of the company he chuses.
Thus is the dance carried on without any interruption till the
assembly breaks up.

The favorite dance of the VENETIANS, is what they call the
_Furlana_, which is performed by two persons dancing a-round
with the greatest rapidity. Those who have a good ear, keep time
with the crossing their feet behind; and some add a motion of
their hands, as if they were rowing or tugging at an oar. This
dance is practiced in several other parts of Italy.

The Peasants of TIROL, have one of the most pleasant and
grotesque dances that can be imagined. They perform it in a sort
of holy-day dress, made of skins, and adorned with ribbons. They
wear wooden shoes, not uncuriously painted; and the women
especially express a kind of rural simplicity and frolic mirth,
which has a very agreeable effect.

The GRISONS are in possession of an old dance, which is not
without its merit, and which they would not exchange for the
politest in Europe; they being as invariably attached to it, as
to their dress.

The HUNGARIANS are very noisy in their dances, with their iron
heels, but when they are of an equal size, and dressed in their
uniforms, the agility of their steps, and the regularity of
dress in the performers, render them not a disagreeable sight.

The GERMANS have a dance called the _Allemande_