November 1748. 



that many of them (efpecially among the young 

 Jews) when travelling, did not make the leaft 

 difficulty 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 Grangers or Chriftians. A young Rabbi 

 read the divine fervice, which was partly in He- 

 brew, and partly in the Rabbinical dialecl:. Both 

 men and women were drefled entirely in the 

 EngKJb 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 re- 

 prefent fackcloth. But I obferved that the 

 wealthier fort of people had a much richer cloth 

 than the poorer ones. Many of the men had 

 Hebrew books, in which they fang and read al- 

 ternately. The Rabbi ftood in the middle of 

 the fynagogue, and read with his face turned to- 

 wards the eaft : he fpoke, however, fo faft, as to 

 make it almoft impoffible for any one to under- 

 41and what he faid. * 



NEW YORK, the capital of a province of the 

 fame name, is fituated under forty deg. and forty 

 min. north lat. and feventy-four deg. and four 

 min. of weftern long, from London; and is about 



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

 ftranger to their manners and religious cuftoms, and therefore re- 

 hues them as a kind of novelty. F. 



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