Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 6 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose text, marked as page [6], from what appears to be an instructional or philosophical work about travel and observation. The visible text discusses how the moral character of different regions varies according to education, government, laws, customs, and climate, and argues that travelers should carefully observe the manners and virtues of the inhabitants they encounter, so they might learn to model their own conduct accordingly. The prose employs period spelling conventions (such as "vifited," "diverfified," "fhould").
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