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of bufy life. Jnduftry, and activity, pervade 

 every part. Wherever an opening, how 

 minute foever appears, there fome little 

 knot of bufy adventurers pufh in, and form 

 a fettlement : fo that the whole is every where 

 full and . complete. There too, as is common 

 in all communities, are many little elbowings, 

 juftlings, thwartings, and oppofitions, in which 

 fome gain, and others lofe *. 



In 



* As a continuation of this moralizing ftrain, the following 

 fhort allegory ventures to appear in a note. 



Ut fylvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos ; 

 Prima cadunt ; ita . 



Debemur morti nos, noilraque 



As I fat carelefsly at my window", and threw my eyes upon 

 large acacia, which grew before me, I conceived it might aptly 

 reprefent a country divided into provinces, towns, and families. 

 The larger branches might hold out the firft the fmaller 

 branches, connected with them, the fecond and thofe com- 

 binations of collateral leaves, which fpecify the acacia, might 



reprefent families, compofed of individuals. It was now 



late in the year; and the autumnal tint had taken pofleffion of 

 great part of the tree. 



As I fat looking at it, many of the yellow leaves (which 

 having been produced earlier, decayed fooner) were continually 

 dropping into the lap of their great mother. Here was an 



emblem 



