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and not too large? The legs and feet of some are unfinished; 

 they are all miserably imperfect, but your generous candour I 

 know to be beyond all their defects." 



TO MR. WM. BARTRAM. 



June 15, 1804. 



" I have arranged my business for/mr little journey; and, if 

 to-morrow be fair, I shall have the chaise ready for you at any 

 time in the morning, say seven o'clock. Or if you think any 

 other hour more suitable, please to let me know by the bearer, 

 and I shall make it answerable to me." 



June 16, 1804. 



" I believe we had better put off our intended jaunt until 

 some more auspicious day. 



" Clouds, from Eastern regions driven, 

 Still obscure the gloomy skies; 

 Let us yield, since angry Heaven 

 Frowns upon our enterprise. 



" Haply some unseen disaster 

 Hung impending o'er our way, 

 Which our kind Almighty Master 

 Saw, and sought us thus to stay. 



" By and by, when fair Aurora 

 Bids the drowsy fogs to fly, 

 And the glorious god of Flora 

 Rises in a cloudless sky, 



" Then, in whirling chariot seated, 

 With my friend I'll gladly go: 

 With his converse richly treated 

 Happy to be honoured so." 



The inconveniences of his situation, as teacher of a country 

 school, determined Wilson to endeavour after some employ- 

 ment more congenial to his disposition; and that would enable 

 him to attain to that distinction, as a scholar, which he was 

 anxious to merit. He consequently directed his views to the 

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