CHAP. II.] RUTA BAGA CULTURE. 161 



Board has published, at the public expense, 

 under the name of Communications, I defy the 

 world to match it as a mass of illiterate, unin 

 telligible, useless trash. The only paper, pub 

 lished by this Board, that I ever thought worth 

 keeping, was an account of the produce from a 

 single cow, communicated by Mr. CRAMP, the 

 jail-keeper of the County of Sussex ; which con 

 tained very interesting and wonderful facts, 

 properly authenticated, and stated in a clear 

 manner. 



118. ARTHUR YOUNG is blind, and never 

 attends the Board. Indeed, sorrowful to relate, 

 he is become a religious fanatic, and this in 

 so desperate a degree as to leave no hope of 

 any possible cure. In the pride of our health 

 and strength, of mind as well as of body, we 

 little drearn of the chances and changes of old 

 age. Who can read the " Travels in France, 

 Spain, and Italy" and reflect on the present 

 state of the admirable writer's mind, without 

 feeling some diffidence as to what may happen 

 to himself! 



119. LORD HARDWICKE, who is now the 

 President of the Board, is a man, not exceeding 

 my negro, either in experience or natural abili 

 ties. A parcel of court-sycophants are the Vice- 

 Presidents. Their committees and correspond 

 ents are a set of justices of the peace, nabobs 

 become country-gentlemen, and parsons of the 



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