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3 .y.:'i ."i T. V --J- 1 86 The North-Carolim. M A G A 2 I N E, for 1.764. . .. 1. .: .. ,..:...- .... ? .-. .. . . . . --- -n- . ' ,-' - - - - -,- - - -.- ;-. - -'-v. .-, -- - n , , yi : -r: J -r-'-l-- J.vi- X. ,-1 :.'::r . ; : r.:..: ,zxzzr ; ?f- .l?- :,--,.Ti,---- J' ---th-n- .-- -.- - . ..-.-J- ?' L '' i ;...-. .. - Ha ,.' , . , '.' - - "', -J- .. . ..'t ':- --Tf 1 .: ifcCL i r w-; J,Li.. ., . i- ' T . ., , . . , , ... Whale Fins Imported in fuch Ship or Veflel, werej to the beft of his 'Knowledge and Be lief, redly zndhnafde the.Fins of Whales caught and, taken in the Gulph or River of St. Laurence, or in the Seas on the Coafts of 'Tome of his Majefty's Colonies in America, i'iiyrthVCrcW "whereof the Owner br Owners, theXaptain cr Mafter, and Three FourtbParts of. the Mariners, vvtreJiis Majefty's.Subjfts. 'jJagZlofJJS BAN D,S rKer fpaclu EX WEEN Bomberg and Erlang, not f:TrfromBavufdorf.iies avillaee, ror 1 1 ' country town, called Kerfpach, which be longs to the Margrave of Bareith,:in Germa- mvand is remarkable for a ftrange cuftom --praaifi..d-by-the-Inhabitants,which .b as .fol.-.--.-'iows: - ' ' ' D'E A T H ftrangely prevented. " : " -TT Nlthe Hiftoryl-of Mufcovy, publifhed-bf Jl; the Ambaffador Demetrius, we read, the memor abb; Fortune of a Country Peafant.1 This Man feeking for Honey, got into a 6 low-Tree, where was fuch a Plenty.of.it, that-- k flicked hi bl gctSu ; Honey only, and finding his Voice could ridt be heard in that folitary Wood, defpaired of V freeing himfelf from this fweet Captivity. A -biJge-BiHcame to'thefamTrertocat-the Honey, of vhich thefe Beafts are very greedy and d efcendi ng with his hinder Parts foremoft, - tHev poof bellow -catcher The Bear, terribly frighted, laboured with al his Mieht to get out, and fo drew the' Peafant from.his fweet rnion, .which otncrwue naa :Frcm the New-Hamp(hire Gazette. 7 EW-HAMPSHIR E can encourage the Woolen and Linen Manufactories ; has many induftrious Inhabitants fettled in Bodies, that would reaJily employ their whole Time in.thofe.ufcful Arts, if any Encouragement , m 'WV was given to .the Produce of -;eir:Laur.-, But, while the luxurious Tafte for Su prevail, while nothing but Silk and Chintzes of India, and the Cambricks, Gauzes, Lawns, Muflins, -Velvets, -Lace ; and many other Su perfluities of foreign Produce, (imported with additional fires, we cannot expeft to fee a happy Refor- ora ot tne count y, ,V m a, mat on be(yUn unti-the fevere Scourges of the ,t happened. . . J ne iviargrave omy .augncu aV ,,.UnA nnvf held in the Hand of- our firft at the odd-fancy of -the man,-who-maue. brin If a man has been married a year, or ic" months at moft, and his wife does not prove ' with childy he is carried out of the r village on a wooden horfc, or pole, and plunged into a pond. As foon as the perfon who has under gone this difcipline and gets out of the water, he is at Hberto:layoW by ftandtii if he can, who is plunged irita the water in the fame manner j and this concludes the farce." " - ' It happened once. that the late Margrave of Bareith palled through thistown when one of thefe proceffions was: exhibited, and was defi xous ' of feeing thjs extraordinary ceremony, little imagining that the perfbh who had been thrown into the yater might poffibly-.take his i , - - . . ' . . a t . . . ' r . r revenge on the. Lord ot the country, as in ract it happened. towards him ; but the whole v.llage gathering. r " ' r. ' ( Tnfk " r,und his fthaj rights, as ounded on a very ancent cuftpm, NoX provinces 0 Americn, we fee the he-was obhgedot only to-gve jheara fum. ; antbrmcd by Decay of their trades. isf rrmtr mntrp them firmlc. hut llkewile lSil,,a u' J . . . L . . . -to - deli verto hemhiSLrinning-fbotman , . vhom, for the greater confirmation of their f;ivouite7fnvilegthey-oblige -tne-dilc!pune:or-tne-ponu. Their Paper Medium (though fupported by - rz t '' - . rr ; I I -1 - X '- -T the" Credi'tf pinching WantSGM If :thefe people are fyere againft fuch, as do notrpQpogatetheir:lpe though probably it may not be owing to any fault; of: tKeitswh bachelors .expedl !to 7dfcr IF. tlic Kerfpach :h Wi filoyJA prevail in the world ? Li aft-V- nnVtatiorisunfilesblevtKeir'ExM Ting Ids than the firft Coft ; the extravagant Impofitions on the Necefl'anes they are in want of, and the al moft total Prohibition of foreign Produc?, makes a deep Iinprcflion on the -Minds of the Contidcrate, and -.all , tljs from the overbearing Ituereft of a few Planters. , I
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