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pries were not lacking, but

crowded the gallery and invaded the pit Old fighters of Indians were

present, andfrom the Spanish islands or from the

ports of home Rude lumbermen from Norfolk or the borders of the Dismal

Swamp stared about them, while here and there showed the sad-colored coat

of a minister, or the broad face of some Walloon from Spotswood's

settlement on the Rapidan, or the keener countenances of Frenchazine elbowed a great proprietor

fro and lean and

brown, described to a nate of Yorktown a buffalo capture in the far

west, twenty leagues beyond the falls Masters and scholars froers, traders, sailors ashore, small

planters, merchants, loquacious keepers of ordinaries, and with men, now

free and with a stake in the land, who had come there as indentured

servants, or as convicts, runaways, and fugitives from justice