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Let us content ourselves with the humbler
task of having, with prosaic [minuteness?]
detailed the mere movements of the day & console
ourselves with the reflection that this plain
unvarnished tale, bold & unjointed tho'
it be may still serve some good purpose -
- [it?] [may?] furnish data to some future
Macauley, who smiling at the strange
characters in which they are [?]
may slip into our records, that he may
tell something of the amusements of the
long bygone generation which flourished under
the good Queen Victoria, to some distant
age who will write, not with the [?]
[gone?] quill, & among whom the [test?]
of respectability may be, not as now, the keeping
[?] but a [point?] [steam?] [carriage?] or balloon.

[Matthew?] Combe
VP.