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( 58 ) their favourite game, and the fickle Goddess is here pursued with as much avidity as at Brooks's or Alimack's; it is but justice to the Brasilian, ladies to say, that they bear no part in this destructive vice, but whether from want of inclination, or from restraint, I can not take upon me to say.

The manners of the Brasilians are, however, gradually converging towards that liberal system, which appears to be continually gaining ground throughout the world, and which will probably be one day universally established, in exact proportion to the peculiar physical and moral attributes of man in the climate he inhabits. The usual dregs of both sexes is adopted from the French; swords and cocked hats are entirely out of