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They now ſit down to an elegant ſupper, after which the dancing girls are introduced, who make a ſplendid appearance, clothed in embrdoidered ſilks and muſlins, and moving in a variety of looſe attitudes that allure adimiration and excite the paſſions.

When the entertainment is over, a ſilver plate not unlike a ſalver, is carried about, into which almoſt every individual drops ſome pecuniary grtatuity to reward the trouble the Hajams, and the gueſts retire in company with the newly wedded pair, who are conveyed on ſeparate planquins to the houſe of his father, while builds of muſic in cheerful mood are playing before

them,