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coming to table, we found covers for fifteenj^ 

 and learned that, inftead of giving us a private 

 dinner, as we had direded, they had put us 

 into a large public room, and ferved a kind of 

 fable bote. Not being prepared for this ar- 

 rangement, we remonftrated againft it, and, 

 with fome difBculty, prevailed in having the 

 extra-covers removed 5 but we foon perceiv- 

 ed that we had gained little by thus inter- 

 rupting the cuftoms of the houfe : for they, 

 diredly, fpread another table in the fame 

 room, and, fetting down the fix ftrangersclofe 

 by us, divided the dinner, they had drefled, 

 between the two parties. 



In making out their bill for payment, 

 they do not detail the feparate articles of the 

 dinner, the number of bottles of wine, the 

 different plates of fruit, &c. as In England, 

 but put down the whole fum, under the three 

 general items of dinner^ winey and fruit \ and, 

 at any houfe you are accuftomed to ufe, if 

 you call, occafionally, in a morning to reft, 

 or to take flicker from the fun, or rain, they 

 give you a glafs of lemonade, or of coco-nul 

 water, with a very *welcome^^ and confi- 

 der themfelves rewarded, by the payment 



