1793- ^^'^ if^'f^' — economy. (^^ 



f. i. I. 

 Distance between them at their base, - ic| 



Ditto between their tips measured over 



the muzzle, 

 Ditto, between their posterior arches,' 



measured over the neck, 

 Circumference of them at their base. 

 !/o be continued. 



\ 

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FRAG MEN rs BY EACON. 



Art of life in ordinary expence, with due but splendid 

 economy. 



For the Bee. 



Continued from vol. ij. p. ^27. 



* * * * 1 DOE sweetly remember when I was at 

 Gorhambuiy with my father, my ever to be honour- 

 ed father., I being then a student at Cambridge, did 

 greatly wonder at the changes he had wrought in 

 my absence, both upon his mansion, and upon his 

 orchyard and garden. 



As we were one lovely evening reposing our- 

 selves in the iittle banqueting house in the orch- 

 yard*, which was just then finilhed and provided 



* It will be curious and interesting to many of the readers of these 

 fragments ot Bacon, to set clown in this place, the list of worthies pla- 

 ced by Sir Nicholas Bacon in his banqueting house in the orchard, 

 as it will serve to fliow without any argument, the astoniihing pro- 

 grefi of scien.e since the year 157?, when this conference took place, 

 4 few rnynths before the death »f the lord keeper. 



