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CUSTOMS OP THE BRISTOLIANS. &TI
be difficult to discover any material difference in
their manners and appearance from those of the
metropolis.
Neither sex has yet adopted that convenient
method of palling through the streets which
renders our movements nearly uninterrupted even
in Cheapside. The citizens of Bristol politely
endeavour to give each other the wall, and thus
constantly impede their progress in a d'treSt line,
sorgetting that no rudeness can possibly be im-
puted to individuals where every per/on invariably
inclines to the right when meeting others.
Should a small portion of the 100,000 people
who inhabit this citv meet with mv work, let
them profit by the gentle reprehension I now
convey for their excess of good-breeding.
On passing through Clare, Corn, and Wine9
named as if three, though but one street, numbers
of large and excellent shops attract the attention
very forcibly to the best articles of dress, gold,
iilver, and jewellery, and books and prints by the
most eminent authors and artists, which are con-
tinued down High-street to Bristol-bridge.
Those, the Exchange, the Pott-office, the
Stage-coach-offices, and the Exchange market,
constantly asTemble numbers of persons; and
this focus is the point where character may be
observed, and inferences drawn. Mine are, that
regularity,
be difficult to discover any material difference in
their manners and appearance from those of the
metropolis.
Neither sex has yet adopted that convenient
method of palling through the streets which
renders our movements nearly uninterrupted even
in Cheapside. The citizens of Bristol politely
endeavour to give each other the wall, and thus
constantly impede their progress in a d'treSt line,
sorgetting that no rudeness can possibly be im-
puted to individuals where every per/on invariably
inclines to the right when meeting others.
Should a small portion of the 100,000 people
who inhabit this citv meet with mv work, let
them profit by the gentle reprehension I now
convey for their excess of good-breeding.
On passing through Clare, Corn, and Wine9
named as if three, though but one street, numbers
of large and excellent shops attract the attention
very forcibly to the best articles of dress, gold,
iilver, and jewellery, and books and prints by the
most eminent authors and artists, which are con-
tinued down High-street to Bristol-bridge.
Those, the Exchange, the Pott-office, the
Stage-coach-offices, and the Exchange market,
constantly asTemble numbers of persons; and
this focus is the point where character may be
observed, and inferences drawn. Mine are, that
regularity,