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CUSTOMS AND MANNERS. ^ 



Plate IX. represents two female domestics, natives, who 

 have adopted the ^Spanish dress, and, with it, the habits of 

 their superiors. 



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In continuation of the above satire, a correspondent who 

 styles himself Hiponobates, addresses to the Academical So- 

 ciety the following 



ALLEGORICAL DREAM. 



The hardness of my couch, the agreeable recollections of 

 my daily adventures, and the perusal of the Mercuries, which 

 I have recourse to almost invariably before I lie down to rest, 

 are wont to procure me dreams of so delightful and durable a 

 nature, that the illusions of my no6turnal repose occasionally 

 appear to me to be realities. The other night, in thinking of 

 the allusion which the historical apologue you have published 

 might convey, my fancy was exalted ; and, with this subject 

 strongly impressed on my mind, I fell asleep. The drowsy 

 poppies which Morpheus shed over me, to lull my wearied 

 faculties, were not capable of effacing entirely the impressions 

 of my spirit. Whether it was occasioned by the particular 

 nature of these impressions, or by the sensibility of the soul, 

 I know not, but I had a dream of such length and consistency, 

 as to appear to me to be deserving of your attention, if it be 

 on no other account than because it corresponds with the 

 above cited apologue, the obje£l of each of the broken narra- 

 tions being in a manner the same. 



It appeared that, after cruel sufferings, the ship on board 

 of which 1 was embarked foundered, and that all the com- 

 panions 



