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Devil's Walk, origin of the, 196

Devonshire, Duchess of, and Brummel, 32

-- eccentrics, 113

Dick England the gambler, 290

Dinely, Sir John, advertising for a wife, 95

"Dog Jennings," 107

Doncaster eccentrics, 296

Doran, Dr., his account of William Combe, 474

Dowton in tragedy, 390

-- oddities of, 389

Dr. Syntax, the author of, 472

Dress, Brummel's, 24, 30

Duality of the mind, by Dr. Wigan, 232

Dunbar, Captain, his letters, 556

Dunlop's remarks on Mrs. Radcliffe's writings, 476

Dust-sifting and dust-heaps, profits of, 92

"Dutch Mail," the, 554

Dwarfs, organisation of, 268

Eccentrics delight in extremes, 94

Elegy on a geologist, 328

Elliot, the Gretna priest, 66

Elliston at Richmond, 415

England, Dick, the gambler, 290

Epicure, what he eats in his lifetime, 536

Epitaphs, odd, 538

Etching, Gilray's rapid, 338

Executions, taste for witnessing, 314

Fairlop Fair and John Day, 280

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