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does a little more & when the bass notes are struck you feel your whole body shake jarr with the strength of the vibrations
From hence we passed over a set of sluices which seperate Harlemer mere from the Sea a fine work ten times larger and more magificent than our grand sluice in Lincolnshire & yet the Dutch think little of it
We arrivd here yesterday at 12 O'Clock & after walking about the town the whole Evening went to the Opera a dutch performance I can assure you the plot seemd to me (for it was in dutch) to be like as you like it of Gay the musick was not quite amiss the drama was however strangely dutchified two acts the first 3 quarters of an hour in length the second an hour & three quarter made the whole of this singular performance