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time ; my reason for making these enquiries is owing to what you mention'd 

 in a former Letter about Enlarging your Habitation, which if it is rather too 

 confin'd for your own family, must of course be more so when you are 

 encumber'd with additional Guests. As for Sarah, she will be happy to take 

 Part of Miss Caroline's Bed if she can make it convenient to spare part of it, 

 so that if I can find a Cabbin & Cot for myself I hope we may continue to 

 do pretty well. It remains for you to say whether your avocations will 

 answer to receive us sometime about the beginning, or middle, of June, at 

 which time we think of being with you. Do let me hear from you on this 

 Subject shortly. 



I am highly delighted with the account you give of the pleasing prospect 

 your American Estate affords. I most sincerely wish these prospects may be 

 realised. If your Masts are the Dimension you mention, and if you get 

 them ship'd without too much expense, they will be invaluable, both to 

 yourselves & to the Country. At all events your Brother James sets out 

 well — may it continue. 



What do you think of Miss Jacobs having brought an action of breach 

 of promise of marriage ? who do you think is the defendant ? as it is impossible 

 you shou'd ever guess I must acquaint you : it is old Sherman, who has been 

 extremely foolish on the occasion, & now is going to be held up to ridicule, 

 as well as Miss »& her Father. 



" Miss Caroline," mentioned in the letter, was Colonel 

 Philips' only daughter. Strange to say, no account is 

 given of her in Foster's Pedigrees. From a letter written 

 by Sir Hungerford Hoskyns in 18 10, we gather that she 

 had long been in failing health, while Meadows Taylor* 

 leads one to understand the same by his phrase, "a happy 

 release, but a sad life." She could not have been more than 

 twenty when she died, towards the end of 181 2. In the 

 summer of 1799, Captain Cable and his daughter take 

 their long intended trip to see their friends in Lancashire. 



Blackburn, July 22nd 1799, 

 I have been expecting an answer from Mr. Parker, the Bowbearer of 

 Bowland forest, for some days past which has hitherto prevented me from 

 writing to you. Yesterday I reed the enclosed from Mr. Wilson of Clitheroe, 

 which I apprehend will answer your purpose. I have to add for your 

 information that minnows abound both in the Hodder and in all the 

 adjacent Brooks, so that you need not fear getting Bait. Mr. Cottam of 

 Whalley informs me that he has had many days of good sport this Season, 



*Part II., p. 49, 



