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542 adventures of a Rufsian gentleman. — May 30: 
From these experiments it appears, that one of the 
greatest obstructions to the raising of madder in this coun- 
try, the dificulty of drying it properly, will be now totally 
removed, and that our manufacturers will derive very 
great benefits by having it reared in their own neighbour- 
hood, instead of getting it imported from abroad as they 
now do. The price might thus be diminifhed to them more 
than one half, while the farmer would be abundantly re- 
paid for his labour. Nothing but ignorance can prevent 
us from engaging in the culture of this valuable article, 
Fortunately for the country there is no prohibitory excise 
duty placed upon the rearing of it. ; 
ADVENTURES OF A RUSSIAN GENTLEMAN AT baa 
NARRATED BY HIMSELF, 
« My first mistrefs made the conquest of my heart at 
a mafked ball, ten days after my arrival; and fhe vanqui- 
fhed me by these words, alone, you are eeeas I was 
then only nineteen,—fhe was handsome,—and it was the 
first time in my life that a woman had told me these 
words. When aman once says to a “woman, Mh love you, 
the devil repeats it to her a hundred times: The devil re- 
peated a thousand times to my ear, that I was charming ; : 
and, on that sweet persuasion, I became terribly in love. 
But I quitted this woman in a {hort time; for, besides that 
fhe was very foolifh and very tiresome, I found that 1 was 
ebliged to leave her to put myself into the hands of a sur- 
geon. When I was again in the world, I related the suc- 
cefs of this good fortune, and was consoled by being told, 
that, besides being egregiously duped, I had been difho- 
noured by attaching myself to a woman who did not belong 
to any of the theatres, I determined very soon to repair 
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