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take their places, as far as the number of 

 empty beds will reach. The king finds 

 every thing here that is requifite for the 

 fick perfons, viz. provifions, medicines, 

 fewel, &c. Thofe who are very ill, are 

 put into feparate rooms, in order that the 

 noife in the great hall may not be trouble- 

 fome to them. 



THE civility of the inhabitants here is 

 more refined than that of the Dutch and 

 Englijh, in the fettlements belonging to 

 Great Britain ; but the latter, on the other 

 hand, do not idle their time away in dref- 

 fing, as the French do here. The ladies, 

 efpecially, drefs and powder their hair every 

 day, and put their locks in papers every 

 night; which idle cuftom was not intro- 

 duced in the Englifh fettlements. The 

 gentlemen wear generally their own hair ; 

 but fome have wigs. People of rank are 

 ufed to wear laced cloaths, and all the 

 crown-officers wear fwords. All the gen- 

 tlemen, even thofe of rank, the governor- 

 general excepted, when they go into town 

 on a day that looks likely for rain, carry 

 their cloaks on their left arm. Acquaint- 

 ances of either fex, who have not feen each 

 Other for fome time, on meeting again fa- 

 lute with mutual kiffes. 



THE plants which I have collected in 

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