[Callers] Contras which feature a "Dublin Bay" figure

[Tavi Merrill via Callers]

Dance genealogy question: The figure first appearing in "Dublin Bay" (aka
"We'll Wed and We'll Bed," its title in Playford) morphed in contra into a
modified "lines of four down the hall."

I know a version of it from Sue Rosen's dance "Handsome Young Maids," where
dancers facing down take four steps forwards, turn alone, and continue down
the hall with four backward steps, then repeat the figure to return up the
hall.

I'm curious how many other contras this figure, or a version of it, appears
in. Does anyone know of other dances? And any astute dance historians out
there know what the first contra to use this figure is?

Tavi
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