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lecture and when I was going my guide gave me | |||
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<unclear>it</unclear> and when i had given it and was coming out of | |||
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<gap/> last room the guide being <unclear>gone</unclear> before la premiere | |||
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of 2 of them more than I knew before, although I
repeated the names of a score or two in 3 or 4 different
languages after as pretty a Dutch girl as you will
see in a hundred. When we came to the Nat: Hist:
room another still prettier girl made her appearance
for the purpose of and ran over a score or two more
names in her department but to very little better
purpose. I be was astonished to find females so
well informed in such matters; it must have cost
the Professors some pains to have instructed them.
I believe however I spent about an hour at this
lecture and when I was going my guide gave me
to understand that it was necessary they should have
11 Stivers a piece. I could not very well grudge
it and when i had given it and was coming out of
last room the guide being gone before la premiere
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Samuel Bentham |
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