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harmlefs ravings of imbecility, which but 

 ferved to verify the common adage : — before 

 dinner his fentiments were difguifed : wine 

 tore away the veil, and in deep drinking, the 

 intemperate old man again became a child, 

 was unguarded, and • . . ,/pake the truth ! 



Mynheer Scholten chirurgien-major to the Dutch troops? 

 Madame Scholten witty and facetious. Author referves a 

 fpecimen of humour to relate to his friend on his return to 

 England. Old town of Amflerdam. A party of Indians. A 

 party of manumitted Negroes. Profeffion of fur geon barber 

 not extincl in the Dutch colonies. Two of the authors 

 comrades Jhaved by a chirurgo-tonfor, who fupports a Latin 

 converfation upon medical and other fubjecls during U the 

 operation" The party meet Mynheer Fenner at Myn- 

 heer Scholten's. Accompany him to the ejlate Johanna. 

 On arriving are prefented to Madame Scholten and five 

 other white ladies. — Good refemb lance of an European 

 garden, appearance of a gang of Jlaves ginning cotton by 

 candle light* 



Berbifche. 



!M[ynheer Sckolten, although not fo ad- 

 vanced in life as the fifcal, has been many years 

 \ in the colony, bufily employed in the pradice 

 of medicine^ and ailing as chirurgien-major to 



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