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turned, to endeavour to retrieve them from 

 the difo^raceful ftate, in v^hich I had found 

 them. In the fucceeding Autumn, I made 

 a third journey, to the fame quarter; and, 

 in the Summer of 1794, I went over the 

 whole of the Drake Estate, lying in 

 different parts of Devonshire. 



It will perhaps be faid,that the Yalley 

 OF THE Tamer, is too confined, and is of 

 too little importance as a Diftrift, to be 

 fuitable for a principal station. In- 

 deed, it is more than probable, that had I 

 ichofen my flation, it would not have been 

 that which circumflances alTigned me. 



But (thanks to the Difpofer of Circum- 

 flances), —now, when I am acquainted 

 With the feveralDiftrids of this Department 

 of the Iflaiid, I am convinced, that there 

 is. no other fituation, which could Iiave 



been 



