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Good Sir^ 

 19. As I was very young in 1700, lb the whole 

 Voyage made fuch a ftrong impreflion upon my 

 Mind, as time never can erafe^ and I very well 

 remember too, that after I was at Oxford^ I ufed 

 (as often as I had opportunity) with the higheft 

 gratification to myfelf, to talk over the affair with 

 my Father, Captain Kirkman and others, who 

 were at Narnja both then and fince. It was my 

 cuftom always to keep Books of Remarks ^ the 

 two firfl: Volumes whereof containing, Gibfon*^ 

 Notes upon Drwjimond'^ Poem, entituled, Polemo-^ 

 Middinia^ Mr. Andrew Bruce % upon the fame, 

 which were never printed ; my own Traft 

 upon Government, that was chiefly levelled at 

 Machiavel^ Hobbsy and Milton^ &c. &c. I burnt 

 many years ago \ and as for the third Volume, \\\ 

 which were my Notes or Explanation of Falco- 

 7ier\ Cryptojnenifis PatefaBa^ that is to fay, his 

 Treatife upon the Art of Decypheringj j\necdotes 

 upon the Weji Indies^ and Obfervations on the 

 Reigns of King William ^ Queen Afin^ and King 

 George the Firft 3 that too was laft week com- 

 mitted to the flames, ia order to prevent the itch 

 of writing fuch Letters as thefe, from fiirther 

 ipreading upon the mind of 



Tour Friend^ W. S» 

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