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years in the trade, make a pair of shoes with broad toes, high in the instep and tight about the heels, he must pare your feet before he fits you; or ask a philosopher why flies' dung is black upon a white place and white upon a black one, he will blush you like a maiden on her wedding night, and answer nothing to the purpose!' And I defy the Royal Society to give a decent explanation of that mystery at the present day. N.B.—John Davies writes t h u s : — This Island is the best governed of any in the Caribbies. Justice is there administered with great prudence by a council consisting of the most eminent and most ancient inhabitants of the colony: swearing, thieving, drunkenness, • , and all dissolutions and disorders are severly punished. In the year 1 6 4 9 , Mr. Lake, a knowing person and fearing God, had the government of it. H e is since departed this life.'
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