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keeping the body and mind employed, have, under 

 Providence, contributed to much health and cheerfulness 

 of spirits, even to old age ; and, what still adds to his 

 happiness, have led him to the knowledge of a circle 

 of gentlemen whose intelligent communications, as they 

 have afforded him much pleasing information, so, could 

 he flatter himself with a continuation of them, would 

 they ever be deemed a matter of singular satisfaction 

 and improvement. 



SELBORNE, 

 January isf, 1788. 





