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( 62 ) The young ladies who are educated in the Convents, are permitted to converse even, with strangers at the gategrate [sic], and often shewed their partiality for our countrymen, by the interchange ef pocket-handkerchiefs and other trifles. There is something so interesting in the silvery tones of a secluded damsel, when two rows of iron bars intervene to prevent a near approach, something so Pyramus and Thisbe like, that tfhe heart of a true-born Englishman cannot fail being captivated.

"Tis distance lends enchantment to the view," and while he repeats the swelling, names of Magdelina, Antonia, or