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exhibited. It refembled the immediately preceding one, in 

 fome refpeds, having the fame number of performers, who 

 began nearly in the fame way , but their ending, at each 

 interval, was different. For they increafed their motions to 

 a prodigious quicknefs, fhaking their heads from fhoulder 

 to fliouldcr, with fuch force, that a fpedlator, unaccuftomed 

 to the fight, would fuppofe, that they ran a rifk of dillo- 

 cating their necks. This was attended with a fmart clap- 

 ping of the hands, and a kind of favage holla ! or fhriek, 

 not unlike what is fometimes pra6lifed in the comic dances 

 on our European theatres. They formed the triple femi- 

 circle, as the preceding dancers had done ; and a perfon, 

 who advanced at the head on one fide of the femicirclc, 

 began by repeating fomething in a truly mufical recitative, 

 which was delivered with an air fo graceful, as might put 

 to the blufli our mod applauded performers. He was an- 

 fwered in the fame manner, by the perfon at the head of 

 the oppofice party. This being repeated feveral times, the 

 whole body, on one fide, joined in the refponfes to the 

 whole correfponding body on the oppofite fide, as the femi- 

 circlc advanced to the front ; and they finiflied, by finging 

 and dancing as they had begun. 



Thefe two lafl dances were performed with fo much 

 fpirit, and fo great exacHinefs, that they met with univerfal 

 approbation. The native fpecTiators, who, no doubt, were 

 perfeft judges whether the feveral performances were pro- 

 perly executed, could not withhold their applaufes at fome 

 particular parts ; and even a flranger, who never faw the 

 diverfion before, felt fimilar fatisfacflion, at the fame in- 

 flant. For though, through the whole, the moft ilridt con- 

 cert was obferved, fome of the gcftures were fo expreflive, 

 that it might be faid, they fpoke the language that accom- 

 panied them J if we allow that there is any connexion be- 



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