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Were fold. The people flood by the fide of 

 the round-houfe on the wall, and flared at us; 

 however, we got by without hurt, though not 

 without fear, becaufe we remembered that a 

 perfon was fome time before pelted with (tones 

 from this very place. When we approached 

 nearer to the fuburbs, we every where, and 

 almofl clofe up to the wall, found houfes; 

 they were all full of men, and efpecially chil- 

 dren and youths, who fang their old fong, of 

 which they were put in mind by the grown oeo- 

 ple, if they did not begiii it themfelves. Yet we 

 likewife found an old reverend man who had 

 more fenfe than the others, and made his chil- 

 dren or grandchildren greet uscivilly. The per- 

 fons of rank in this country teach their children 

 from their earliefl: years the di&ates of virtue 

 and honefty, and fpare no expences towards a 

 good education : but the common fort of peo- 

 ple train their children up with their dogs ; 

 for which reafon neither of them can bear 

 ftrangers. We afterwards pafied by many 

 gates, and over a little canal into a lane alone- 

 the fide of the wall, in which China-orange*, 

 I'laintains, China-olives, or Fackia, and many 

 other fruits, were fold. An intolerable flench, 

 and the noife and ciamour of the populace, ob- 

 liged us to make hade to the Swedijh factory. 

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