Thomas Mount's flash language (1791)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:05:50AM -0400, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>    I was going through the online Alaska libraries, checking for Alaska slang
> books.  I came across the _Confessions of Thomas Mount_ (1791).  This
> supposedly contains a list of flash words.  However, when I ran "T(homas)
> Mount" through the NYPL and LOC catalogs and through the online OED, nothing
> came up.  Has anyone seen this work and recorded any of the flash words?
> What words are they?

HDAS makes very heavy use of this source, cites as "Confess. T. Mount". It
has our first American examples for a wide variety of cant terms.

Jesse Sheidlower