24^ ihe win. Fch.l$, 



have been endeavouring in vain to make him re- 

 ceive : If he refuses still this last mark of my friend- 

 fliip,-! renounce him for my friend fi^om this mo- 

 ment, and I intreat our common friends, to revenge 

 my insulted memory, by ceasing to visit so unreason- 

 able a philosopher *. 



I ihall have lefs trouble, I believe, to make my 

 good friend Agib accept a legacy. What do I not • 

 owe this dear Agib? He attached himself to me, al- 

 most in spite of myself, as soon as he saw I was old 

 and infirm ; and he never quits me one moment, from 

 the time I was given over. It was him who made 

 . me see a thousand perfections, I, noir any of my 

 friends imagined I pofsefsed. It is him who obser- 

 ved wijh a severe eye all th^ g'ddy tricks of my 

 nephews, and who gave me an account of them rather 

 more than true. But what ihall I leave such a zea- 

 lous and ofEcious friend ? A good counsel, that I 

 hope he will profit by it. " Chuse better your 

 dupes, my dear Agib, and never act your part of 

 friend, but to one who to his riches adds vanity and 

 weaknefs, you will find a hundred of this sort !" 



Done at Balsora in the 32 2 J. year of the Hegira 

 the C)th day of the moon Regeh. 



HASSAN BEN-AIOUB SIRVAJfT OF GOD. 



SPECULATION 



ON REARING OAK WOODS IN SCOTLAND. 

 Sir, "To the Editor of the Bee. 



Oeveral of your correspondents have communica- 

 ted to you many important hints upon the improve- 



* Abbe Bl^r.chet, ti.e wr'.ttr of this tjle, has here delineated his owR 

 character with surpris/'ng fidtlity. 



