Among other hideous
customs, they attempted to introduce among them that of _bundling_,
which the Dutch lasses of the Nederlandts, with that eager passion for
novelty and foreign fashions natural to their sex, seemed very well
inclined to follow, but that their mothers, being more experienced in
the world, and better acquainted with men and things, strenuously
discountenanced all such outlandish innovations."
[22] By Washington Irving, p. 211. 4th Am. edition.
[23] Dr. Andrew Burnaby. _Travels through the Middle Settlements in
North America, in the years 1759 and '60_. London, 1775.
[24] _The Portfolio_ (Philadelphia, May 1816), p. 397.
[25] _Terences Plays_ were preferred to those of Plautus, for this
purpose, inasmuch as the latter were more obscure, and abounded in
obsoletisms, and therefore Terence was preferred in England as the
text-book for schools.
[26] Ireland.
[27] _The Reviewers Reviewed, or British Falsehoods detected by American
Truths_ (New York, published by R. McDermot and D. D. Arden, No. 1, City
Hotel, Broadway, 1815, 12mo, 72), pp. 34, 35.
[28] The Right Honorable Sir George Canning, the editor of the _London
Quarterly Review_.
[29] _Travels through the Interior Parts of America; in a Series of
Letters_ (by an officer; a new edition, London, 1781, 8vo), vol.
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