her to consent of the completion of his happiness[.] But Gabouret instead of keeping his word communicated the farced which was going to be acted to the People of the Post and proposed, what was immediately agreed to, that while he conducted his Montagner Lover to a dark room the husband of the beloved object should place himself there with that part which we mention the seldomest bare and in a kissing posture – in which our old Lecher found him when stretching forth his long neck & ravishing a kiss he exclaimed how smooth & soft the face of a white woman!

The Montagners shew an unnatural indifference for the Loss of those who ought to be more dear to them. The parent loses the child and the child loses the Parent without regret or shedding a tear excepting when rum is so plentiful within as to stream from their eyes but this patience we must not ascribe to thinking heads but to unfeeling Hearts and the state of insensibility into which they are plunged by the too immoderate use of spirituous Liquors which appear to have the same benumbing effect upon their faculties which opium has upon those of the Turks. To do them justice however

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