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culty about eating this, or any other meat 

 that was put before them ; even though they 

 were in company with chriftians. I was in 

 their fynagogue laft evening for the firft 

 time, and this day at noon I vifited it again, 

 and each time I was put into a particular feat 

 'which was fet apart for ftrangers or chrifti- 

 ans. A young Rabbi read the divine fervice, 

 which was partly in Hebrew, and partly in 

 the Rabinical dialect. Both men and wo- 

 men were- dreifed entirely in the Englijh 

 fafhion ; the former had all of them their 

 hats on, and did not once take them off 

 during fervice. The galleries, I obferved, 

 were appropriated to the ladies, while the 

 men fat below. During prayers the men 

 fpread a white cloth over their heads ; which 

 perhaps is to reprefent fack cloth. But I 

 obferved that the wealthier fortof people had 

 a much richer cloth than the poorer ones. 

 Many of the men had Hebrew books, in 

 which they fang and read alternately. The 

 Rabbi flood in the middle of the fynagogue, 

 and read with his face turned towards the 

 eaft 3 he fpoke however fo fail, as to make 

 it almoft impoffible for any one to under- 

 ftand what he faid.* 



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* As there are no Jews in Sweden, Prof. Kalm was an ut- 

 ter ftranger to their manners and religious cuftoms, and 

 therefore relates them as a kind of novelty. F. 



