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116 are ent with nutmegs, in the uual form, to invite their friends and acquaintance to the wedding, and the houes of each party are adorned with green branches and flowers. Outide the doors they erect galleries for the muicians, under which, are rows of feats, or benches for the accommodation of the lower clas of people, who are forbid any cloer communication. Allured by invitation and the love of pleaure, the welcome guets arrive, and dicover the houes by the green branches and flowers with which they are gayly dreed, to ditinguih them from opthers. The entire week is pent in the utmot mirth and convivial enjoyment; The finet carlet mulin is procured for the young people