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         As I was going to America to see the Americans I took the

first opportunity which presented itself- that of the voyage to American- for weighing + measuring the specimens of that very com- pound race who happened to be on board the ship in which I was sailing. About half the Passengers forty five in all, were of German extraction; + about half of this half were of the Hebrew persuasion. One young fellow among these latter, who I suppose might be regarded as a representative of the broad Syna- gogue delivered it as his opinion, that the time had come when the ? I/d give up all their peculiar practices which modern knowledge has proved to be founded in misconception + mistakes He instanced their abstinence from Pork, strikeout + from the blood of the animals they used for food, + their method of killing