122 TRAVELLING MEMORANDUMS. June!, 



puchins are refpe£lful, generally modeft in their ap- 

 plications, and very pioufly thankful, returning prayers 

 as value for our charity ; and what better pennyworths 

 have we from our own ellablilhed clergy ? — The cuf- 

 tom-houfe officers are on public duty — A moderate 

 bounty contents them, and they are always polite — - 

 The farmers begin to make fome improvements in this 

 country, and they feem to be in a good train — In the 

 north of England and Scotland, the theory and praftiee 

 of ornamental and profitable agriculture, are of a very 

 modern d?te — If the accommodations for travelling in 

 the articles of hired carriages, drivers, harnefs, are not 

 yet fo good as in Britain, they are cheaper ; and this 

 advantage is alfo a modern improvement, in which, 

 with other more important reforms, it is not impro- 

 bable that they may foon excell us Moft kinds of 



provifions are good and plentiful in this country — 

 Cookery, to the general tafte, is fuperior ; the wine 

 better, and cheaper — Good burgundy for the price of 

 adulterated port, in the Englifli inns — Thefe are capi- 

 tal articles for honeft fellows who love good cheer, 

 and deiire not to join any of thofe multitudes who dif- 

 turb this world fo often about ferious, and, for the 

 moft part, incomprehenfible matters. 

 "^0 be continued. 



To the Editor 0/ the Bee. 



Sir, 



A few evenings ago, having accidentally caft my eye 

 upon the queries of Arfturus, in the 9th number of 

 the fecond volume of your ufeful mifcellany, concern- 

 ing the great revolution of the heavens, or the Plato- 

 nic year, as explained by Mr. de la Grange, of the 

 academy of Berlin ;*I fell into a profound and pleafing 

 meditation (after fupper, when I had retired to reft). 



