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part is also beautiful, but possessing all the masculine ac-
companiments, as mustachoes and whiskers, of very strong
black hair, with which the chin is also thinly sprinkled ; she
appears to be about the age of twenty two years; walks like
a female, and possesses a pleasing feminine voice ; her eyes
are black, with a sparkling brilliancy, and her strong jet black
hair on her head, which she wears tastefully dressed, gives
her a striking and not unprepossessing appearance. During
her exhibition she wears a remarkable short dress, displaying
a beautiful and well formed muscular leg, with small ancles
and feet; when perambulating the streets, we have seen
her, always dressed in male attire, wearing a green jacket,
with white trowsers, and a round hat. When receiving com-
pany, her manners are always modest and dignified, and as
her hand-bill expressed, ladies may divest themselves of ap-
prehension, as the exhibition is conducted with the strictest
delicacy. Her first exhibition, after arriving in this country,
early in the year 18IQ, was at No. 8, Gerrard Street, Soho;
after which, finding the influx of visitors to be great, she re-
moved for their accommodation to the Great Room, Spring
Gardens, and received company from the hours of one till
ten o’clock. We presume to think she never exhibited her-
self out of London, and it is probable from the sums of
money she has been known to receive in the course of a
day, being from fifty to one hundred pounds and upwards,
for private and public exhibitions; for the first, one guinea
W'as the admission ; for the latter half a crown ; she soon ac-
quired a competency, and immediately retired, we are inform-
ed, to France, to enjoy in peace what she had thus earned.
Delicacy forbids us to be more explicit in respect to this ex-
traordinary person, but we must state, that to the medical
woild this personage has proved an inexhaustible source of
professional inquiry, w'ho all declare that have seen her, that
take her for all m al], they never shall look on her like again.
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part is also beautiful, but possessing all the masculine ac-
companiments, as mustachoes and whiskers, of very strong
black hair, with which the chin is also thinly sprinkled ; she
appears to be about the age of twenty two years; walks like
a female, and possesses a pleasing feminine voice ; her eyes
are black, with a sparkling brilliancy, and her strong jet black
hair on her head, which she wears tastefully dressed, gives
her a striking and not unprepossessing appearance. During
her exhibition she wears a remarkable short dress, displaying
a beautiful and well formed muscular leg, with small ancles
and feet; when perambulating the streets, we have seen
her, always dressed in male attire, wearing a green jacket,
with white trowsers, and a round hat. When receiving com-
pany, her manners are always modest and dignified, and as
her hand-bill expressed, ladies may divest themselves of ap-
prehension, as the exhibition is conducted with the strictest
delicacy. Her first exhibition, after arriving in this country,
early in the year 18IQ, was at No. 8, Gerrard Street, Soho;
after which, finding the influx of visitors to be great, she re-
moved for their accommodation to the Great Room, Spring
Gardens, and received company from the hours of one till
ten o’clock. We presume to think she never exhibited her-
self out of London, and it is probable from the sums of
money she has been known to receive in the course of a
day, being from fifty to one hundred pounds and upwards,
for private and public exhibitions; for the first, one guinea
W'as the admission ; for the latter half a crown ; she soon ac-
quired a competency, and immediately retired, we are inform-
ed, to France, to enjoy in peace what she had thus earned.
Delicacy forbids us to be more explicit in respect to this ex-
traordinary person, but we must state, that to the medical
woild this personage has proved an inexhaustible source of
professional inquiry, w'ho all declare that have seen her, that
take her for all m al], they never shall look on her like again.
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