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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. 
DECEMBER, 
— he drew back, and returned to look again, quite ab- 
forbed in wonder.””He made an effort to look behind, as if 
conceiving fomebody was there, but found the glafs fixed 
clofe to the wall. Mr. M‘Intyre, obferving the idea that 
had croffed him, ordered a fmall glafs to be brought into the 
room, wherein having viewed his face, he looked behind, 
to difcover the perfon who looked at him; totally unable to 
make out how all this was produced. 
Nor did Lee Boo’s furprize at feeing himfelf in the mir¬ 
ror, much exceed that of each of our own people, though 
the caufe was different, not one of them having ever got 
a glimpfe of their own face from the time of the wreck, 
each having only noticed the hollow-eyed and lank look of 
his companions ; but when they now flood before the mir¬ 
ror, every one individually perceived that hard labour, hard 
living, fpare diet, and anxiety of mind, had wrought a 
change in every countenance far greater than they could 
have imagined. 
After palling an evening, which had been rendered 
pleafant and chearful from the hofpitality of their hofl, 
and the limplicity of Lee Boo, our people retired for the 
night: whether Lee Boo paffed it in deep, or in reflect¬ 
ing on the occurrences of the day, is uncertain; but it is 
more than probable they were in the morning recollected 
by him in the confufed manner in which we recall the traces 
of a dream. 
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