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' In Nature's infinite toooli of secrecy 

 A little I oaxi read." 



ANTONT AND OLEOPATRA, ACT I. SO 11. 



I MUST apologize, my dear friend, for having al- 

 lowed some days to elapse without resuming the 

 subject introduced in my last letter ; but the avoca- 

 tions of business wiU occasionally interpose, in the 

 performance of many of the offices of friendship. 

 Occupied as I at present am, it is but seldom that 

 I can snatch a few consecutive hours, to pay my 

 homage to literature or to science. Trifling as my 

 acquisitions in either may be, they are still sufficient 



