Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s Journal, England, Wales and Ireland, 1822-1823, page 30
The town of Bath is one hundred Mildes [miles] from London and Contaning [containing] Eighty thousen [thousand] inhabitentes [inhabitants] the land Round it is high and Loftey [lofty] the town setes [sits] on a Side of a hill from the uper [upper] side of this town you have a most precious vue [view] of the Cunterey [country] Round a bout [about] the quality frequint [frequent] this plase [place] in winter and live it in Sumer [summer] for london [London] to Spend the Sumer [summer] thare [there] in this town are maney [many] Minerills [mineral] waters Which the quality visit this town for thay [they] have no other imploy [employ] but goe [go] about from one part of the Cunterey [country] to the other And spend thar [their] muney [money] with thar [their] famlies [families] Cariges [carriages] and Serventes [servants] Som [some] of these families Spend Sum [some] hundredes [hundreds] in a day with thar [their] parties thay [they] Are all Ritch [rich] people thay [they] Dont [don’t] Care for sum [some] thousande [thousand] to Spend in plesure [pleasure] I stop thare [there] three weekes [weeks] Dun [done] nothing left thare [there] for frume [Frome] twenty mildes [miles] from Bath
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Samuel Hadlock, Jr of Islesford, Maine, documented his travels in England, Ireland, and Wales, where he exhibited a family of Inuit people, and later also Romani people, as entertainment.
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