folder 03: 1830–1835

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are imparted to them by the Priests who find it greatly to their advantage to keep them in ignorance & the Matters taken in a Mass. /exceptions to be sure / are as great a sett of Ignoramuses as one country ever brought forth. Mathematics then know nothing of & when they can play on the piano, dance, sing, & play Billiards & also raise a pair of Whiskers, they are educated. The Ladies are the same. doing nothing but looking out of their windows showing their pretty black eyes & hair to every person who passes by. & perhaps give the wink when she sees a person with whom she is well acquainted or with whom she would wish to be a little better: I can tell you what, the Maltese Ladies are beautiful little creatures on their exterior. but when you engage in conversation with them. you pretty soon see that they are not american, who with a modest & beautiful countenance draws admirers & there by her fascinating conversation entangles him in her net. The Maltese Ladies are the wives of a year & the American per la vita, the Ladies are of age & marriggeable at 13d 14 & so on untill 25 or 30 & then they are as ugly as the Old Ladies of America at 65 & 70. There is a marraigae shortly going to take place here of a young man, a Baron, of the age of 17" to a "young" lady of 29" you can immagine what talk there is here of this.

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this extraordinary match, if on the contrary the Gentleman had been 29 & the lady 112 it would have been more reasonable as the Maltese Ladies are generally Grandmothers at the age of 30 & GreatGrandmothers at [43 & 5?]. You may think that I joke but I assure I do not & if you wish to read the best account of Malta ever written buy "Travels in Malta & Sicily by A. Bigelow of Boston there you will find the true character manners & Customs delineated in the most correct and splended Style. his language is pure & chaste & at the same time amusing & instructing. When I receive a letter from you with a few questions on the various points which you [insertion] may [/insertion] wish to know I flatter myself that my letters will be a little more acceptable This is only an outline & I write more from the desire of hearing from you than give you [paper is torn] amusement which you do not deserve for your nonCorrespondence. I have commenced Arabic which I find the most difficult study immaginable. They write from the right tot he left in this manner [arabic writing sample] which means the King done justice, my name they write thus [arabic writing] ---& Cousins [arabic writing]: but as it is very difficult for me to write backwards as yet. I cannot

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