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journey down the Bath Road in 1780, and it is outside 

 the scope of my scheme to describe the terminus, or to 

 follow our travellers further through their three months' 

 stay. They met however some characteristic figures, 

 travellers like themselves on the Bath Road, some known 

 to fame, others not. Amongst them a Mr. W., a young 



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clergyman, who had a house on the Crescent. He was 

 immensely tall, thin, and handsome, but affected, delicate, 

 and sentimentally pathetic, and his conversation about 

 his " own feelings," about amiable motives, and about 

 the wind which, at the Crescent, he said in a tone of 

 dying horror, " blew in a manner really frightful," made 



