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LETTER XXXVIII.

Manchester. Cotton Manufactory.-Re-

marks upon the pernicious Effects of

the manufacturing System....

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LETTER XXXIX.

81

Manchester.-Journey to Chester.-Packet-

boat. Brindley.-Rail Roads.-Chester

Cathedral.-New Jail.-Assassination

in the South of Europe not like Murder

in England.-Number of Criminals,-

but Abatement of Atrocity in Crimes.

-Mitigation of Penal Law.-Robert

Dew. Excellent Administration of

Justice.-Amendments still desired.... 96

LETTER XL.

Voyage to Liverpool.-Filthy Custom at

the Inns. School of the Blind.-Athe-

næum.-Mr. Roscoe.-Journey to Ken-

dal....

LETTER XLI.

Queen Mary I.-Lake of Winandermere.

-Ambleside.-Lake of Coniston..

Kirkstone Mountain.-Lake of Brother-

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water.-Paterdale.-Lake of Ulswater.

Keswick, and its Lake.-Lodore Water-

fall. Ascent of Skiddaw.

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LETTER XLIII.

Borrodale.-Wasdale.-Waswater. -Cal-

der Bridge. Ennerdale.-Crummock

Water.-Lake of Buttermere.-Lakes

on the Mountains.

LETTER XLIV.

Departure from the Lakes-Wigton.→→

Carlisle.-Penrith.--The Borderers.-

The Pillar of the Countess.-Appleby.-

Brough. Stainmoor.-Bowes.-York-

shire Schools...

LETTER XLV..

York City and Minster.-Journey to Lin-

coln.-Travellers imposed upon-Inn-

keepers.--Ferry over the Trent.-Lin-

coln-Great Tom.-Newark.-Alcon-

bury Hill,.....

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160

183

206

Cambridge.

LETTER XLVI.

Republican Tendency of

Schools counteracted at College.-Col-

lege a useful Place for the debauched

Students, a melancholy one for others.-

Fellowships.-Advantage of a University

Education.-Not so necessary as it once

was...

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LETTER XLVII.

Newmarket.-Cruelty of Horse-racing.

Process of Wasting-Character of a

Man of the Turf.-Royston.-Bunting-

ford.-Cheshunt.-Return to London.. 241

LETTER XLVIII.

Middlesex Election.-Nottingham Elec-

tion.-Seats in Parliament how obtained.

Modes of Bribery.-Aylesbury.-

Ilchester.-Contested Elections.-Mar-

riages at Bristol.-Want of Talent in

the English Government accounted for. 250

Fashion.-Total Change in the English.

Costume.-Leathern Breeches.-Shoes.

Colours. --Female Fashions.--Tight

Hair-dressing. Hoops.--

Lacing.

Bustlers.

and Pads....

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Rumps. -- Merry-thoughts

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LETTER L.

Lady Wortley Montagu's Remark upon

Credulity. Superstitions of the English

respecting the Cure of Diseases.-Sick-

ness and Healing connected with Super-

stition.-Wesley's Primitive Physic.-

Quacks.-Dr. Graham.—Tractors.—

Magnetic Girdles.-Quoz.-Quack Me-

dicines....

LETTER LI.

278

Account of Animal Magnetism....

LETTER LII.

Blasphemous Conclusion of Mainauduc's

Lectures.-The Effects which he pro-

duced explained.-Disappearance of the

Imposture...

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LETTER LIII.

Methodists.-Wesley and Whitfield.-
Different Methods of attacking the
Establishment.--Tithes.--Methodism
approaches Popery, and paves the Way

for it.-William Huntington, S. S... 340