xqS travelling memorandums. June 15, 



has made the tour of Europe moflly on horfeback— He 

 muft be very kind and bofpitable to his clergy ; one 

 day at dinner he a<ked his principal fervr.nt, — *' how ma- 

 " ny hogiheads of claret did we ufe Jaft year ?" The au- 

 fwer was), ' Sixteen, pleafe > our L)rdihip." — Such in- 

 ftances prove the great benefit of dignities with higlx 

 revenues in the church of Chrift, and how much it is 

 advanced and improved lince ti.e days of the apoftles. 

 1 be.ainj acquainted with feveral Engliili travellers 



of difttnftion, particularly Mr. H ly, and Mr. 



F b, fenfible and well-informed gentlemen, and both 



lately fro n the Eall Indies — I had the pleafure to be 

 fometimes in company with Lord Jolin Murray, the 

 ol.ie'i: general m the Britiih fervice, palf eignty, the 

 fineft and moft agreeable figure of an old man of falhion 

 I ever beheld. 



bomebody of my acquaintance informed the famous 

 old natural philofopher, Monfieur Buftbn, that I had a 

 dog begot by a wild fox on a terrier bitch in the moun- 

 tains of Scotland; He lignified, by a meflage, his de- 

 fire to be fatisfied as to tlie truth of this matter I was 



not able to wait on him, as I intended ; but I commu- 

 nicated to him tlie grounds of my belief. — '♦ That the 

 " original owner, a perfon of credit, affurcd me of the 

 *' fa£t :— I dated bis ficrcenefs and furly temper, and his 

 •' condant pra£tice in the early part of every fpring, to 

 •' commit fome depredation on young poultry, and to 

 " hide his prey, till reilrained by fevere correction, as 

 " indications of his parentage — That the figure of this 

 •' dog was very fingular, with a (hiking and hand- 

 " fome lefemblance to the fox, in fliape and colour, 

 *' and other circumflances." — Had he lived to publifh 

 a new work, 1 fuppofe my dog would hrtve made a fi- 

 gure in Natural Hiitory — At coffeehoufes, and other 

 places of public refort, this creature drew many curious . 

 perfons to converle Avith me — For fome hours in the 

 forenoon, I had levees even from perfons of diftinclion 

 to vifit him, and I began to apprehend, that if I ha^ 



