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der to be present at these games the next
day.
I arrived at the place of action about
seven o'clock in the morning, and found
the road and town very full of country
people, as at a wake in England, but saw
very few carriages, or persons of rank and
fashion; however, considerable prepara-
tions were making in the great square,
for the diversions of the evening.
At eleven high mass was performed in
the principal church, which was very
much ornamented, and illuminated with
innumerable wax tapers, which, together
with the greatest crowd I ever was in,
rendered the heat almost equal to that of
the black-hole at Calcutta, and the con-
sequences must have been as fatal, had
not the people been permitted to go out
as others pressed in; but neither religious
zeal, nor the love of music, could keep
any one long in the church who was able
to get out. In short, the whole was a
struggle between those whose curiosity
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