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There is nothing like courage under all trials. Dis- 

 appointment might naturally enough be imagined to 

 have followed the summing up ; but, it was only mo- 

 mentary. For one, my wife was quite confident, that if 

 she had had selected a ticket, it would have been for- 

 tunate; while she expressed her determination, that, in 

 case of another lottery, to choose as many sevens as 

 possible. My young friend had also his particular 

 opinion. He attributed a portion of his ill luck to co- 

 partnership, remarking, that the friend who held a moi- 

 ety of one sixteenth had always been unfortunate ; and 

 he therefore consoled himself with some distant hope of 

 success in single-handed speculation. 



I LXXXIII. 



Plymouth, May, 1833. 



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EXTRACTS 



FROM THE 



MEMORANDUM BOOK OF A TRAVELLER. 



NO. IV. 



IT has been observed that in my notices of the priests 

 of the temple of Minerva, in West Barbary, I have 

 only unveiled the bright side of individual character, 

 that I have related the good qualities of these illustri- 

 ous men without adverting to their defects, and that 

 my praise of what is laudable has been unmingled with 

 censure of that which is the reverse. In reply to these 

 animadversions I may answer that I have fulfilled my 

 own design ; I never intended to allude to any thing 

 connected with the priests which did not appear to me 

 to be worthy of praise and imitation, for especial rea- 

 sons, viz., Firstly, I, a foreigner, was regularly admit- 

 ted to partake of the intellectual banquets at which these 

 worshippers of Minerva periodically assembled ; I, by 

 their courtesy, made one at the " feast of reason and 

 the flow of soul " it would then, surely, be an ill re- 



