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CONT A 7

idle looking couriers & servants, past the lampposts surmounted by Esculepius's companion the serpent, gracefully suspending their light containers & soon gained the open country. A fruitful one is it as indeed is the whole of Nassau, and the fruit trees along the road reminded me that I was soon leaving the country of blackberries & baths. The romance of “the man with the iron mask” was soon turned into a real & not an imaginary character for we met with him breaking stones on the roads most industriously. And he appeared to have set the fashion here for we saw many other men accoutered & employed. At Hattersheim, black bread was administered to our horses while their driver was enjoying

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