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and the goods are offered to fale; tea-houfes, taverns, 

 and inns, are ready for the reception of company; 

 fruits, and all forts of refrefliments, are cried about the 

 ftreets : the fhop-kcepers teize the paffengers to purchafe 

 their merchandize; and every liberty is permitted: there 

 is no diftinction of perfons ; even the emperor is con- 

 founded in the crowd : quarrels happen-— battles enfue — 

 the watch feizes upon the combatants— they are conveyed 

 before the judge, he examines the difpute and condemns 

 the culprit, who is fometimes very feverely baftinadoed, 

 to divert his imperial majefty, and the ladies of his train. 



Neither are fliarpers forgot in thefe feftivals ; that 

 noble profeffion is generally allotted to a good number of 

 the moft dextrous eunuchs, who, like the Spartan youths 

 of old, are punifhed or applauded, according to the 

 merit of their exploits. 



The plantations of their autumnal fcenes confift of 

 many forts of oak, beech, and other deciduous trees that 

 are retentive of the leaf, and afford in their decline a 



I rich 



