Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 38 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose, numbered 38, from what appears to be a travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes visiting a rotunda (built by a charitable gentleman as an imitation of London's Ranelagh) where the author attended an evening of singing and concerts by named performers; the profits support a hospital. The passage concludes by noting a visit to barracks, described as a noble structure with one quadrangle and three courts. The text uses 18th-century typography conventions (long s's rendered as f's in OCR).
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