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under the rhapsodies of contemplation ; in- 

 viting my associates so to do, when encoun- 

 tring the rocks and rivers for recreation. 



Now, gentlemen, since magnetism is so 

 little known among artists, I less blame the 

 indigency of those that know not how na- 

 ture by innate quality attracts her own like- 

 ness, than other inconsiderate rationals, that 

 sport away their time in pursuit of their 

 lusts. Let the angler therefore (if he please) 

 select contemplation, and pity such others 

 that are destitute of those heavenly advan- 

 tages, till the strokes of grace and a pious 

 example or education, compel them to write 

 memorandums of the glorious creation, in 

 the fair and legible copy-book of wisdom ; 

 so imitate nature in her daily progress, till 

 ariving at the super-excellency of practical 

 Christianity, which truly to know, is wisdom 

 in the abstract, that transmutes our nature 

 into grace, and our humanity into divinity. 

 But this you'l alledg is heavenly transmu- 

 tation ; and so it is beyond the mediums 

 and discovery of art, or the indication of 

 nature (improper therefore to introduce un- 



