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for the fum of 25!. only. It is true it lies againft 

 the fea, and has been occafionally fubjed to inun- 

 dations by the overflowing of the tide, the laft of 

 which was anno 1737, and the next before that 

 anno 1703.* 



Having 



a wood, faftened his hands behind him, fixed one end of a halter 

 round his neck, the other end to a limb of a tree, and in this fituation 

 left him feated upon his horfe. Popham M'-as under dreadful appre- 

 henfions of his approaching fate, and fo much the m»re as the grafs 

 grew fhort on which the horfe had for a time very quietly fed ; but he 

 now began to ftretch the rope by extending his circuit, and Popham, 

 who had been humouring him with a jockey-whifUe, began to cry 

 out in great agony of foul, Ho! Ball! ho! Ball! but at the very in- 

 ftant he was about to fwing off, he was relieved by one of his com- 

 panions, who had divided from the other, and was returned back for 

 that purpofe. It happened that in a fcries of yeara Popham became a 

 Judge, before whom his companion who had faved his life was con- 

 vi(5\ed for a capital offence, and being afkedrwiiy judgment of death 

 fhould not pafs, he mimicked the Judge's former tone ef voice, and 

 cried out Ho! Bull! ho! Ball! The Judge, who now reeolleded his 

 face, told the Court that the prifoner appeared to be infane, and that 

 he would refpite fentence till next aflizes, before which he found meansi 

 to get the culprit pardoned and provided for. 



* The nwnners of the inhabitants of this flat country cannot fo well 

 be judged of by a ftranger as a native ; they are civil or rough as the 

 traveller pleafes. Take an example founded on fadl : — 



" ^ Hark yqu, fellow, which is my road to Frog-hole ? A, What's 

 call I fellow f<K? 1, 1,1, zed nothing to thee. ^ Well, my good 

 man, I would not liave you be offended, for I did not mean to affront 

 you, but pray do tell me the road. A. Whare didfl thou come from 

 than ? ^ Why, my hojoeft friend, can it make any difference to you 

 from whence I came? A. No fhour and Ihour, but then it can be no 



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