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Rh formality, to his master, in order to prepare him for the reception of the viitant.

In paing through ome parts of the town, I have oberved everal men employed in repairing the treets, who had logs chained to I their feet, as a punihment, which the law inflicts for the commiion of mall crimes. Women guilty of petty offences, appear abroad quite bald, their heads being cloe haved, in order to expoe them to public corn. Perfons in the matrimonial tate, detected in criminal converation, are mounted on a large jackas, with two pears or bayornets fatened round the brows of each, to denote their hame, and render them