A guide to Madeira : containing a short account of Funchall, with instructions to such as repair to that island for health.

  • Joseph Adams
Date:
1808
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Credit: A guide to Madeira : containing a short account of Funchall, with instructions to such as repair to that island for health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    lludy the nature of money negociations in the iQand.- If this be omitted, and currency diould be fcarce on your arrival at Madeira, it is not improbable, that.for your bills of ex- change on London, you will receive no more than about eighteen piftreens for every twenty thillings you draw for, befides put- ting the merchant to whom you are recom- mended to fome inconvenience. ♦ On' arriving at the idand, it will be ad- vifeable for fome perfon (if the patient be a lady, or in too feeble a date) to land, and, as the town is not large, to leave all his let- ters of introduction, in order to make enqui- ries concerning accommodation. Thofe of the tavern are ill calculated for invalids, and the private lodging houfes, though lefs ex- ceptionable, are far inferior to thofe to which ' the Englifli are accuftomed at home. As an encouragement to others, a phyli- cian*, well known amongft the London fa- culty, has attempted to eftablilh a houfe for ♦ Dr. Adams; for the particulars of this ellablilhment en- quire of Mr. Baxtar, at Apothecaries’ Hall. the i
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