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season they have of 3 or 4 months. Some of the Bohemian glass shops in the colonnade are very gay and beautiful.

SUN. AUG. 6 – A letter in 5 days from Cambridge came to Mrs Joy today; this is superior to our correspondence slowness last year.

At the Protestant church were our steam packet companions Lord Newry & his party. Mr & Mrs ?Yeatman also (of Balliol) whose marriage took place about the same time as ours did. Two clergymen officiated. One at the close of the service requested “the contributions of his hearers for the purchase of a new surplice (this is mine said he, displaying his own) & bands, for payment of 1.45 weekly to the organist, of 1 florin to the man that blows the bellows,"

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