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think it One to Herself. She left ye Devizes very ill, but is 

 better. 



I must see You after your Journies ; why you are just at 

 Home at Sunbury ! Miss Hecky must hear all your Travels, 

 & You must lead her quick Imagination thro' your Sdvh veXupa, 

 as Homer does, to your irfpiKdweas dypovs. But I ask your Pardon 

 for reducing You to Greek, I believe it is ye strangest Thing 

 You have seen in your Journies. To tell you ye Truth, I have 

 frighted myself, but not so much but that I can reflect with 

 Sincerity that I am in the best Language (which is that of ye 

 Heart) 



Dear Gil, Your affectionate Friend 



J. M. 



Letter 24. 



Sunbury, 



Oct. 6, 1750. 

 Dear Gil : 



I am much obliged to You for your Account of your 

 Travells, which was very exact and very entertaining : If You 

 would but continue your Tours, & write to Me from them, I 

 should have Materials for a very usefull & agreable Pockett 

 Volume. I cannot in Eeturn give You a List of Excursions 

 which would contain any Variety ; for my Journeys are only 

 from Sunbury to Hampton & back again. My great Escapes are 

 when I follow You in Imagination ; and indeed according to your 

 Description of the South-hams, it is ye only way in which I can 

 follow You thither ; for I, who have lately maintained that it is 

 up-hill from Hampton to Sunbury, should never bear ye extreme 

 Uneveness of that Country. Perhaps You may think that it 

 is as indifferent a Matter to Me whether ye Eoads would be 

 too rough for Me in so distant a Part as Devonshire, as whether 

 the Climate would be too hot for me to pass from Agra to ye 

 Kingdom of Caschmire ; but it is not so ; for it is far from being 

 improbable that I may go as near them as Plymouth ; & I should 

 be sorry to be so near Wells & not see Him. You give me 

 great Pleasure in your Description of his Manner of Life ; It 

 answers the Idea I have always entertained of the Man ; whose 

 plain good Sense & honest Heart promised the Figure He 

 makes in domestic & social life. 



I must let You a little into ye present Disposition of our 

 Family, that You may know what to trust to, if You are for 

 adding the little Jaunt to Sunbury to your Western Travells. 

 You have been mistaken in supposing that Miss Hecky has 

 been wth me this Summer. She has been at Canterbury 'till 

 within these three weeks, the greater part of which She has 



