Chapter 5
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5. THEIR Apparell and Speech is like that of the People and Countrey under which they live: Ć’o are they Ć’een to wear Plaids and variegated Garments in the Highlands of Scotland, and Suanochs therefore in Ireland. They Ć’peak but litle, and that by way of whiĆ’tling, clear, not rough. The verie Divels conjured in any Countrey, do anĆ’wer in the Language of the Place; yet Ć’ometimes the Subterraneans Ć’peak more diĆ’tinctly than at other times. Ther Women are Ć’aid to Spine very fine, to Dy, to ToĆ’Ć’ue, and Embroyder: but whither it is as manuall Operation of Ć’ubĆ’tantiall refined Stuffs, with apt and Ć’olid InĆ’truments, or only curious Cob-webs, impalpable Rainbows, and a fantaĆ’tic Imitation of the Actions of more terreĆ’tricall Mortalls, Ć’ince it tranĆ’cended all
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the SenĆ’es of the Seere to diĆ’cerne whither, I leave to conjecture as I found it.
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