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into the room. If I had looked a mo- 

 ment longer, I should have dropped.— - 

 When 1 came to reflect, Ta^hat a change I 

 I looked down at my dress. What a 

 change ! What scenes I had gone 

 through ! How altered my state ! I 

 had dined the day before at a Secretary 

 of State's, in company with Jifr. Pitt, and 

 had been waited on by men in gaudy live- 

 ries ! I had had nobody to assist me in 

 the world. No teachers of any sort. — 

 Nobody to shelter me from the conse- 

 quence of bad, and no one to counsel me 

 to good, behaviour. I felt proud. The 

 distinctions of rank, birth, and wealth all 

 became nothing in my eyes ; and, from 

 that moment (less than a month after my 

 arrival in England) I resolved never to^ 

 bend before them. 

 :'an. i^. Same weather. Went to see my old Qua- 

 ker-friends at Bustleton, and particularly 

 my beloved friend James Paul, who is 

 ver}^ ill. 



17. Pteturned to Philadelphia. — Little frost 

 and a little snow. 



18. \ Moderate frost. Fine clear sky. The 

 i 9. f Philadelphians are cleanly, a quality 

 20. 1 which they owe chiefly to the Quakers. 

 ?1.3 But, after being long and recently fa- 

 miliar with the towns in Surrey and " 

 Hampshire , and especially with Guildford , 

 Alton and Southampton, no other towns 

 appear clean and neat, not even Bath or 

 Sahsbury, which last is much about upon 

 a par, in point of cleanhness, with Phila- 

 delphia ; and, Salisbury is deemed a very 

 cleanly place. Blandford and Dorches- 

 ter are clean ; but, I have never yet 

 seen any thing like the towns in Surrey 



