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cation to bufinefs, and careful in the manage- 

 ment of our affairs. What pleafure muft it not 

 give to a humane and civilized mind to view 

 his dependants happy, to fee the bleffings of 

 induftry fprad as far as his own influence 

 extends, at the fame time that he reaps the 

 fruits of his laudable endeavours, not only 

 by the increafe of his fortune, but in being 

 loved and efteemed by all thofe with whom 

 he is conrie&ed !, What an amazing fund of 

 entertainment may a view of the works of 

 nature afford to a fpeculative mind, and what 

 an excellent field for meditation and amufe- 

 ment of the moil innocent kind, while, along 

 with the moft fublime mental enjoyment, the 

 health of the body is promoted, and thofe 

 baneful difeafes, the effeds of the confined 

 and polluted air of a city, not to mention 

 the ftill more pernicious effects of diffipation, 

 are kept at a diftance ! Let this again be con- 

 traded -with the tormenting reflections attend- 

 ing the courfe 0f life, which too-many of our 

 gentlemen follow in London or Edinburgh, 

 the real danger to which they are always ex- 

 pofed, and the certain ruin which fometimes 

 overtakes them ; and there i$ no perfon in 



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