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the year, particularly Whitfuntide, are facred to good 

 cheer. It is then a general cocagna, at which 500,000 men 

 all join in concert. At this time the ftreet of Toledo, 

 and feveral other ftreets and fquares are ornamented in 

 * the moil linking tafle. The flails and mops where 

 greens are fold, where grapes, melons and figs are fct 

 out, moft agreeably attract the eye. The eatables 

 • hang in feftoons and garlands acrofs the ftreets ; large 

 chains of famTages, gilt, and tied with red ribbands ; 

 turkies, with all of them a red fcreamer ftuck under 

 their rumps. • I have been allured, that 30,000 of 

 them are fold, without reckoning thofe fattened at 

 home by private perfons. Berides this, a vafr. number 

 of afTes, loaded with garden fluff, capons, and young 

 lambs, are driven about the market and through the 

 city ; and the heaps of eggs that are feen in various, 

 parts, are fo great, that no creature alive would ima^ 

 gine fo many could be collected together. And it is 

 not enough that all this is confumed ; every year aa 

 officer of the police, goes through the city attended 

 by a trumpeter, to proclaim in all the fquares and 

 croffways, how many thoufand oxen, calves, lambs, 

 hogs, &c. the Neapolitans have confumed. The peo- 

 ple liften with extreme attention tp the proclamation, 

 and are immoderately delighted at the huge amount, 

 while each individual recollects with pleafure the fhare 

 he has had in the enjoyment. 



What relates to the paltry dimes, which our cooks 

 are fo well fkilled in preparing under a great diversity 

 of denominations, is greatly attended to by this peo- 

 ple, who are very adroit in fuch matters. The mac- 

 caroni, a preparation of the dough made with fine 

 meal, is to be had of all the different; kinds, at a tri- 



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