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particularly relates to the inferior clafs of the people* 

 Some go about with glaffes of ice-water, and kmons 9 

 for making lemonade for their cuftomers ; a drink 

 which even the very lpwerl perfons cannot do without; 

 others, with hand-waiters on which are fet flafks of va- 

 rious liquors with drinking- glaffes broke in the fhanlc 

 and iluck in pieces of wood to keep them from falling; 

 others carry bafkets of all kinds of paftry, fweetmeats, 

 lemons, and different fruits ; and it feems as though 

 every one was inclined to indulgence and to augment 

 the grand fefrival of enjoyment which is every day 

 kept at Naples. 



As thefe peripatetic dealers are always occupied, fo 

 there are likewife a great number of petty tradefmen 

 who carry on an ambulatory trade in the fame way^ 

 and offer their trifling commodities, without ceremo- 

 ny, on boards or in open boxes ; and, in the fquares* 

 fpread forth their whole fhop on the even ground. 

 We are not here fpeaking of wares, that are to be 

 found in the more re fpe enable fhops ; but merely of 

 the fripperies. Not a particle of iron, leather, cloth, 

 linen, thread, that is not brought again to market as 

 frippery, and that is not again bought and fold by 

 others. There are as;ain numbers of the lower orders 

 of people who aci as runners and labourers to tradef- 

 men and mechanics. 



It is true, that one cannot advance many fteps with- 

 out meeting with an ill-dreffed, or even a ragged fel- 

 low ; but this poor fellow is not therefore a vagrant or 

 a fcoundrel. Nay, I might almoft venture to affirm, 

 what will appear a paradox ; that at Naples, there is 

 proportionably, perhaps even the moft induftry to be 



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