Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 47 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 47: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour" (page 47). The text describes a recreational walk to a bafon (likely "bason," a public promenade) at the west end of a city near navigation connected to the Shannon River. The narrator notes a porter screens visitors by genteel appearance, and describes spending an hour observing the landscape and "certain moving objects" passing in view. The passage ends mid-sentence mentioning "our very worthy and good-natured friend Mr. B——." The text uses period spelling conventions ("fpent," "weft," "pafs'd"). This appears to be from a travel account rather than typical penny dreadful sensational fiction.
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A MONTH’s TOUR. 47 This, however, is chiefly applicable to the inferior ranks. After dining at D——s, we walked for recreation ‘to the'bafon, which its fituate at the weft end of the city, near the naviga- tion intended to communicate with we Shannon. A porter conftantly attends this walk, who admits none but fuch as make a gen- teel appearance. Here we fpent an hour very agreeably in contemplating the beauty of. the prof- pect, and the far more enchanting beauty of certain moving objects that pafs’d in ‘re- view before us while we fat down. Our wery worthy and good-natured friend Mr, Tusa comicbooks.com