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seems a very remarkable discovery to have made) ; and 

 " that the inliabitants were savage " — whicli is a discovery 

 not so remarkable,\vhen one remembers that near Brighton 

 not long ago one of these savages ran at a lady with a 

 pitchfork for riding over a turnip-field. Poor Horace 



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had no such adventure as this — so far as I can learn ; but 

 it was clear to him that " George the Second mii^ht well 

 ' be the first monarch of the East Angles," and " that 

 coaches grew^ in Sussex no more than balm or spices " ; 

 almost immediately after which horticultural remark .he 



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