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with the most pressing invitation for me to come and see him
at any rate on my return. My Baggage & I were then conducted
over the water and lodge safe in the Inn. I got a dark
Kind of a room but it answers my purpose very well.
It happens to be Kermes time. It beg This fair began
the day I came & will continue a week. The common people
on this occasion here are more noisy in their mirth than I have
ever seen them any where else. In the boat I came over in
there were perhaps 40 or 50: 10 of whom women as well as men
were bawling with all their might as many different airs.
The fair itself does not differ in general from other great fairs
except that there is much more money spent in proportion to the
number of people in diversion of one kind or other.
A Dutchman whom the loss of a penny stiver has deprived of half a
night's sleep at any other time will now spare no expence
in his diversions He is now not unkike an English Sailor
on pay day: I have not observed any thing mischievous
or purposely troublesome in the behaviour of the lower class of
people but at the same time the most perfect inattention to
the rank of those of superior rank
When I As soon as I had unpacked
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Samuel Bentham |
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