Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s Journal, Europe, 1824-1826, page 39
Prog [Prague] is an old anchent [ancient] town the Brig [bridge?] is about 800 hundred feete [feet] long with Christ Represented on the Cross as large as life Made with brass also [also] the twelve Aposills [apostles] covred [covered] in stone as large as life alls [also] Danill [Daniel] lost in the lions den But the gratest [greatest] curiosity [curiosity] Is that the King of that plase [place] Haid [had] one of the prests [priests] throd [thrown] of [off] the brig [bridge] about 500 years Ago [?] he cep [kept?] the wood [would] not canfes [confess] to the King what his wife had told him lest he refused to Inform him of hur [her] privet [private] Matters therefore [therefore] he was tose [tossed?] off This bridge and dround [drowned] after taken around caried [carried] after that taken up and deposited in the
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Samuel Hadlock of Islesford, Maine, documented his travels in Europe, where he exhibited a group of Inuit and Romani people as entertainment.
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