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maxim, from a pleafure in contemplating 

 the increafe of fuccefs, and making affii- 

 rance doubly fure. 



' I have yet great works to perform, 

 which will call for all my profits. The 

 lands, of which I have the entire property, 

 amount, as near as I can conjecture, to bet- 

 ter than eleven thoufand acres, of which 

 fourteen hundred are but a fmall part ; and 

 yet I think, with pleafure, of cultivating 

 the whole. In a diftant part of it 1 have a 

 bog of about two hundred acres, which, I 

 think, might be drained, and would then, 

 I conceive, turn out the beft meadow on 

 my eftate, as I could throw water over 

 every part of it ; I have alfo other trafts, 

 which, upon examination, I find to be good 

 loamy foil, but fa over-run with fponta- 

 neous rubbiih, that the mere grubbing will 

 be a confiderable expence. I want much to 

 reach both thefe objects, as I think both 

 would be more profitable than the land I 

 am upon at-prefcnt." 



Upon my afking him if he did not fome- 



times feel a wearmefs, owing to the fcl'tude 



cf his life, fo contrary to what he once had 



lived in at Paris, and in the army, he replied, 



S 3 Not 



