98 Tetter from Sonex. . Sept. 
My friend was silent to these expostulaiious. 
The tear rolled’in his eye, but he answered me not 3. 
a few cays afterwards he returned with a chearful 
countenance. I have just received a letter (he 
said,) that you will be glad to see. It is from Ju- 
lia, (for so I fhall call her at present, ) and put it in- 
my hand. Julia was the intimate companion of my 
dear, dear, girl, who has now been long at her rest ; 
fhe was the greatest favourite beyond my own fami- 
by Lever had on earth Her absence, which the situ- 
ation of her family rendered necefsary, added not a 
little to the grief that overwhelmed me. She after- 
wards married a man of great worth in the Bahama 
islands. Our intercourse was thus in some measure 
suspended ; but fhe never forgot the friend of her 
youth, nor her aged father. She had heard how much. 
my health had beenimpaired. She had been afraid 
to write to myself; but fhe wrote to my friend, with 
the most engaging solicitude inquiring about the 
father of her friend. She had heard of the severe 
effects of the former winter: fhe dreaded those of | 
that which was to come. She praised the serenity 
and mildnefs of the climate in which fhe breathed. 
She thought if I could venture to come thither, it 
would be productive of the happiest effects. She 
dwelt upon this theme with a most engaging pro- 
lixity. She concluded by entreating my friend to 
prefs me, if still in life, and capable in his opinion 
of undertaking the voyage, to come there, where the 
winter.blasts were never experienced; and where the 
would take a particular pleasur. in performing those 
little afsiduities which the departure of her friend,... 
