74 EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON. 



enabled to erect safe and commodious 

 dwellings, that agriculture is improved, and 

 the Earth made to yield her treasures. The 

 beauty of the surrounding landscape, these 

 magnificent habitations which adorn it, the 

 fiocks which graze in the meadows, and the 

 Tessels which navigate the river, all originate 

 from the combined efforts of men, and may 

 serve to convince us of the inestimable adk 

 vantages which result from the social state. 

 Dinner being rmw announced, our familv- 

 party sat down to partake of a social meal, 

 and toward evening returned by water to 

 London. Before retiring to rest, their 

 father informed them that on an early day of 

 the following 1 week, it was bis intention to- 

 accompany them on a similar excursion, 

 when he would resume the discourse which 

 had afforded them so much gratification. 



No. V. 



