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following days I faw nothing remarkable, but 

 coafted along a charming country, hid at times by 

 very difagreeable profpects, which however are 

 of no great extent. Wherever I went afhore I 

 was quite enchanted by the beauty and variety of 

 a landfcape, which was terminated by the nobleft 

 forefls in the whole world* Add to this* that 

 every part of it fwarms with Water fowl ; I cannot 

 fay whether the woods afford game in equal pro- 

 fufion but 1 well know that on the fouth fide 

 there is a prodigious quantity of Buffaloes* 



Were we always to fail as I then did, with a 

 ferene fky in a mod charming climate, and on 

 water as clear as that of the pureft fountain \ were 

 we lure of finding every where fee u re and agree- 

 able places to pafs the night in, where we might 

 enjoy the pleafure of hunting at a fmail expence* 

 breathe at our eafe the purer! air, and enjoy the 

 profpect of the fineft countries in the univerfe^ 

 we might pofiibly be tempted to travel to the end 

 of our days. I recalled to memory thofe ancient 

 Patriarchs who had no fixed place of abode, 

 who lived in tents, who were in a manner the 

 mailers of all the countries they palled through, and 

 who enjoyed in peace and tranquillity all their 

 productions, without the plague inevitable in the 

 poffeffion of a real and fixed eftate. How many 

 oaks reprefented to me that of Mam re ? how 

 many fountains put me in mind of that of Jacob ? 

 each day a new fkuation chofen at pleafure a 

 neat and commodious houfe built and fufnifhed 

 with all neceftaries in lefs than a quarter of an 

 hour, and floored with a pavement of flowers* 

 continually fpringing up on a carpet of the moil; 

 beautiful green ; on all fides fimple and natural 

 beauties unadulterated and inimitable by any art, 



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