38 1 40 43 Habitually living wth the
elements and knowing little more of
the land than as a beach, or, rather,
that portion of the terraqueous globe
providentially set apart for dance-houses
doxies and tapsters, in short what
sailors call a " fidlers' green, " his
simple nature remained unsophisticated
by that maze of ^ those guarded moral obliquties
which are not in every case incompatable
with that manufacturable thing
known as respectability. But are
sailors, without v frequenters of " fiddlers'-
-green -greens , " without vices? No; but
less often than with landsmen
do ^ their vices, so called, they partake of viciousness crookedness of heart . ,
these same their vices, so called, seeming
38 1 40 43 Habitually living wth the
elements and knowing little more of
the land than as a beach, or, rather,
that portion of the terraqueous globe
providentially set apart for dance-houses
doxies and tapsters, in short what
sailors call a " fidlers' green, " his
simple nature remained unsophisticated
by that maze of ^ those guarded moral obliquties
which are not in every case incompatable
with that manufacturable thing
known as respectability. But are
sailors, without v frequenters of " fiddlers'-
-green -greens , " without vices? No; but
less often than with landsmen
do ^ their vices, so called, they partake of viciousness crookedness of heart . ,
these same their vices, so called, seeming

Transcribed by: John Bryant