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curiosity of a Christian, to see that place on which the 

 blessed 'Saviour of the world was pleased to humble himself, 

 and to take our nature upon him, and to converse with men : 

 and to see Mount Sion, Jerusalem, and the very sepulchre 

 of our Lord Jesus ! How may it beget and heighten the 

 zeal of a Christian, to see the devotions that are daily paid 

 to Him at that place ! Gentlemen, lest I forget myself, I 

 will stop here, and remember you, that but for my element 

 of water, the inhabitants of thia poor island must remain 

 ignorant that such things ever were, or that any of them 

 have yet a being. 



Gentlemen, I might both enlarge and lose myself in such 

 like arguments. I might tell you that Almighty God is said 



Theobalds. 



to have spoken to a fish, but never to a beast ; that he hath 

 made a whale a ship, to carry and set his prophet, Jonah, 

 safe on the appointed shore. Of these I might speak, but 

 I must in manners break off, for I see THEOBALDS HOUSE. 



in their "Index Expurgatorius." H. On this subject there is a passage in 

 the prose writings of Dante, which, singularly enough, seems to have escaped 

 the censors. See Preface to Wright's "Dante" (Btihn's ed. 1853). ED. 



