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been exercifed in vain. I may too with 

 propriety add, that the concatenation of 

 fmells arifing from the fumes of the kitchen 

 below, when joined with thofe within the 

 room, were fuch as would not fuit a per- 

 fon of nice olfactory nerves. I complained 

 to the fervant in the morning, that I had 

 been almoft devoured by fleas, and re- 

 ceived in anfwer one of the mofl fingular 

 excufes for filthinefs I ever heard, " Dear 

 " me, fir," faid the girl, " if we were to 

 " kill one of them, ten would come to it's 

 *' burying." 



There is, I think, nothing that could 

 induce a perfon to come to this houfe but 

 the exquifite fcenery around the place, and 

 it is a great pity but fome man, with a 

 more liberal fpirit than the prefent mjfe- 

 rable landlord, would erect a fmall neat 

 inn in oppofition to this dirty and wretchec} 

 place. Surely cleanlinefs and civility would 



not go unrewarded ! 



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