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eafe and pleafantnefs, from the dextrous hand 

 of Mynheer the chirurgo-tonfor ; who, during 

 the whole procefs, converfed fluently in Latin, 

 upon medical and various other fubjeds. His 

 education had been liberal, and he was not 

 devoid of information, either literary, or me- 

 dical : yet, from cuftom, he did not feem to 

 feel any fenfe of humiliation in {looping to 

 the menial office of fcraping another man's 

 chin ! — Such is the force of habit ! What 

 would our Englifti knights of the fcalpel fay 

 were they called upon, in thefe enlightened 

 days, to Jhave even the mod dignified of his 

 majefty's fubje&s ? 



It was within our plan as recommended 

 by M. Malfted, after palling the day at Old 

 Amfterdam, to proceed with the evening tide 

 to the eftate Johanna. We therefore held it 

 a fortunate circumftance that we met with M. 

 Fenner, at M. Scholten's, who was from that 

 eftate, and who very kindly defired to be our 

 conductor to his home, an offer which we 

 moft gladly accepted. We dined at three 

 o'clock at the old fifcal's, drank tea a little after 

 four at M. Scholten's ; and by five were in 

 the boat on our way to Johanna, — where we 



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