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you do now in reference to Zanker ? can you 

 give a relation of that corporation ? 



Theoph. Yes, that I can, and will do, not- 

 withstanding the difficulties I have encountred. 

 Zanker stands situate on a flat or level, surround- 

 ed, as you see, with excellent corn-fields : but 

 more remote it's besieged with mountains that 

 are rich in lead-mines. The planets I fancy 

 them very benevolent to influence this swompy 

 rocky earth, and shine metallick blessings into 

 them, to commode the indigent and almost un- 

 cultivated native. Heaven, it's true, is always 

 propitious, because never to impose the law of 

 of sterility, when to supply the whole world with 

 the bounty of increase. And tho the people here- 

 abouts are destitute of ingenuity, and their fields 

 for the most part impoverish'd for want of cul- 

 tivation ; yet are their rivers and rivulets reple- 

 nished with trout, because undisturb'd with the 

 noosy net, which augments the angler's \ if not 

 the artizan's entertainment. 



Am. Here's no character of Zanker all this 

 while. 



Theoph. I am just coming to tell you, that 

 Zanker is a town and a corporation too ; tho not 

 bulky in buildings, yet there is a bailiff, master 

 sometimes of a brew-house, whose entertainments 

 (in my opinion) may easily be guest at, provided 

 you reflect on our late accommodation. 



