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difordered in their underftanding, to females, 

 and that of females to men, on account of the 

 mutual fympathy of the two fexes for each other. 



I would not wifli that there fliould be in the 

 kingdom any one art, craft, or profeflion, but 

 whofe final retreat and recompenfe fliould be at 

 Paris. Among the different claffes of citizens 

 who pradlife thefe, and of whom the greater part 

 is little known in the capital, there is one, and that 

 very numerous, which is not known at all there, 

 though one of the moft miferable, and that to 

 which, of all others, the rich are under the flrongeft 

 obligations, I mean the feamen, Thefe hardy and 

 unpoliflied beings are the men, who go in queft of 

 fuel to tneir voluptuoufnefs to the very extremities 

 of Afia, and who are continually expofing their 

 lives upon our own coafts, in order to find a fup- 

 'ply of delicacies for their tables. Their converfa- 

 tion is at lead as fprightly as that of our peafantry, 

 and incomparably more interefting, from their 

 manner of viewing objeâis, and from the fingularity 

 of the countries which they have vifited in the 

 courfe of their voyages. At the recital of their 

 many-formed difafters, and of the rempefls which 

 threatened them, while employed in conveying to 

 you obje6\s of enjoyment, from every region of 

 the Globe, ye happy ones of the earth ! your own 

 repofe ïïiay be rendered more precious to you. 



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