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RAG.782.034
10 Dec 1782:12,13,21 (8/537)
(From the London Chronicle, Aug. 31. Letters from an
American farmer, describing certain provincial situations,
manners, and customs, not generally known; and conveying
some idea of the late and present interior circumstances of
the British Colonies in North-America, etc. By Hector St.
John, a farmer in Pennsylvania.)
. . . [Narration for 2/3 of column] but our jaunt into the
garden must be postponed for the present, as the bell is
ringing for dinner.
. . . [continues] By this time the working part of the
family had finished their dinner, and had retired with a
decency and silence which pleased me much. Soon after I
heard, as I thought, a distant concert of instruments.
However simple and pastoral your fate was, Mr. Bartram, this
is the desert of a Prince; pray what is this I hear? "Thee
must not be alarmed, it is of a piece with the rest of thy
treatment, friend Iwan." Anxious I followed the sound, and
by ascending the stair case, found that it was the effect of
the wind through the strings of an Eolian harp; an
instrument which I had never before seen.
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