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were well and so far on your return to Edinburgh. 
I should be very happy indeed to visit Cumberland 
and Westmoreland with you, and nobody knows but 
it may fall out so at some time or another: it is 
easy to conceive the want of a companion must 
abate a great deal of the pleasure in viewing the 
beautiful and romantic scenes; there is even a degree 
of horror in the grand and majestic prospects of 
nature, in solitude. 
I will not say what flattering hopes I form, but 
I am much mistaken if kind Providence has not put 
your fortune in your own power, and that you have 
little to do besides pursuing the track you are travel- 
ling with so much success, but to shun the most 
obvious dangers and mistakes in life. The pleasure 
and comfort your meeting gave me is inexpressible. 
On our return home we came to Lutterworth : here 
we ascended the pulpit in which the first English 
reformer, Wickliffe, used to preach, and sat in the 
chair, still preserved, in which that eminent man 
died *. 
I am, your affectionate Father, 
JAMES SMITH. 
* “« The Lives of John Wickliffe, and of the most eminent of his 
Disciples, Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and 
Zisca. ‘After the way which they call heresy, so worship we 
the God of our fathers:’ Acts, chap. xxiv. ver. 14. By William 
Gilpin, M.A. 1766, Svo. 372 pp.—The writer of this very enter- 
taining work has shown himself a man of abilities, a gentleman, a 
scholar, and a friend to truth and religious liberty ; and the very 
great men he hath chosen for the subjects of his pen are worthy 
to be well considered in all ages, and afford very many useful 
lessons to all succeeding times, of the amazing force of truth. 
