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me, he could not have thought the world was 

 fo big. Thefe were his very words — and was 

 not it mighty natural ? 



To fhew how much of the natural he 

 had in him, I cannot refrain from adding, 

 that, having paft a turnpike or two, for the firfl 

 time, in this excurfion, he was in raptures 

 at the piety of the people thereabouts ; for 

 he told me, that they had the Belief and the 

 Ten Commandments painted upon blue boards 

 at every gate — though he paft through and 

 could not read them, having left his fpedacles 

 at home. 



Pardon, gentle Reader, this digreffion, 

 which has informed you of an anecdote rather 

 extraordinary. If you do not believe it, and 

 fhould find out the fubjed:, who was him- 

 felf the narrator; don't venture to tell him 

 fo — He is a paflionate man, rather inclined 

 to let blood, and may perhaps, if you com-' 

 mit yourfelf to him, put you to death. 



To return to bufinefs — The letters I have 

 received have required a clever arrangement ; 



and 



