NOUTHEllN MEMOIRS. 



sent unto us ; where like heros we may triumph, 

 because from these fords to carry off such tro- 

 phies, as will evidence for us the remarks of 

 spoil ; and where the inhabitants must be indi- 

 gent of civility, if not civilly to treat us, whilst 

 we commode them with the choicest treasures of 

 Loemon. What think you, gentlemen ? your 

 opinion on the measures I have taken. 



AquiL I approve on't very well. 



Arn. So do I. But first, if you please, let us 

 enter their ports, and examine the distinction be- 

 twixt diet and disease. As also we may consult 

 if their beds are burdensome after exercise ; which 

 I desire to experience, and the rather, in regard 

 (as I perceive) by those signals, the sprinkling of 

 rain, we must be forced to depart to-morrow 

 morning. 



AquiL A sentence too severe ; we cannot 

 morally separate so soon. 



Arn. Morally or naturally, it must be so ; for 

 when the coverings of rain shut up the case- 

 ments of day, and darkness as a pavilion over- 

 shades the night, it's madness to contemplate 

 recreation in angling, when the rivers are hour- 

 ly recruited with rains. 



AquiL I approve not of hasty resolves, as prog- 

 nosticate a parting before we meet ; the law of 

 friendship binds it otherwise. 



