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LETTER IV. 105 



" order about the place where they dance, making 

 *^ ufe from time to time of one or other of them, 

 *' according to the impulfe they receive from their 

 *' Diftemper. They begin their dancing an hour 

 " after Sun-rifing, and end about an hour before 

 noon-day, without ever taking any reft, un- 

 lefs the Inftruments grow out of tune -, and 

 then they are very uneafy till they are in tune 

 again : It being wonderful how fo rough and 

 unpolifhed Perfons as Hufbandmen, Keepers 

 of Cattle, and fuch Rufticks fliould become 

 fo accurate and nice in the knowledge of the 

 Harmony or Difcord of Mufical Inftruments; 

 and carry their enquiry fo far as to alk how 

 " much each of them coft. An hour after Noon- 

 " day they begin again to dance, and continue 

 fo doing till Sun-fetting; and this they do for 

 three days following, and in the fame order 

 without ever being tired, as I have fccn many 

 of them, nay, more than three days undergo- 

 ing that fatigue, if they obtain no remedy by 

 it any fooner -, and fome are faid to have been 

 obliged to do it eight, and others ten days fuc- 

 ceffively. Whilft they dance they are not in 

 their right fenfes, nor do they make any di- 

 ftindlion between their Friends, Relations, or 

 others, but all are alike to them -, though it is 

 true that they fometimes invite fome comely 

 or pretty Youth to dance with them. The 



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