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[[Venice]]

Tuesday July 30: went to see some Churches
& Convents w'ch [which] are so much in the common
Stile as not to need a particular acc't [account] of them

Wednesday July 31. Dined this day with
[[Mr. Murray]] the english Resident. with whom
dined all the english Strangers at Venice,
besides those of the Residents Family - viz

[[Lady Wentworth]] - Wife of [[Mr. Murray]]
[[Lord Ossory]] - an Irish young Nobleman
[[Mr. Beauclerk]] -
[[Mr. Pigot]] -
} English
[[Mr. Hope]] of [[Rotterdam]] & speaks english like
a native of [[England]].
[[Mr. Powel]]
& myself
} from [[America]]
[[Mr. Brumpton]] an english Painter, a young Man
whom it Seems is very intimate at ye [the] Resid'ts [Residents'] -
& [[Mr. Ducket]] who is a kind of Clerk & lives with
the Resident

Before we left his House, there were some of the most
violent Claps of Thund'r [Thunder] I ever heard with sharp
lightning & very heavey rain - It seems they know
little here of the manner of preserving Houses from Thund'r [Thunder] by electric
-call Rods as ~~is done [?]~~ in Phila.

Thursday Aug. [August] ye [the] 1: dined this day with [[Mr.
Danenbergher]] a German Son in Law to [[Consul Martens]]

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