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RAG.777.098
23 Oct 1777:22 (41)
From the Universal Magazine for June 1777.
A Succinct Account of the City of Philadelphia.
. . . [1 1/2 columns describing the progress of the
environs, politics, and arts]
Arts and sciences were yet in their infancy. There were
some few persons who discovered a taste for music and
painting; . . .
Their amusements are chiefly dancing, in the winter; and in
the summer, forming parties of pleasure upon the Skuylkill,
and in the country. There was a society of sixteen ladies,
and as many gentlemen, called the Fishing Company, which met
once a fortnight upon the Skuylkill. They had a very
pleasant room, erected in a romantic situation, upon the
banks of the river, where they generally dined and drank
tea. . . and the company diverted themselves with walking,
fishing, going upon the water, dancing, singing, conversing,
or just as they pleased. The ladies wore an uniform, and
appeared with great ease and advantage from the simplicity
of it. The first and most distinguished people of the
colony were of this society; and it was very advantageous to
a stranger to be introduced into it, as he became acquainted
with the best and most respectable company in Philadelphia.
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