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the English Nation.
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LETTER II.

ON THE

QUAKERS.

Such was the substance of the conversation I had with this very singular person; but I was greatly surpriz'd to see him come the Sunday following, and take me with him to the Quaker's meeting. There are several of these in London but that which he carried me to stands near the famous pillar call'd the monument. The brethren were already assembled at my entring it with my guide. There might be about four hundred men and three hundred women in the meeting. The women hid their faces behind their fans, and the men were

cover'd