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Perouse, to return no more, I suppose; unless, 

 indeed, — like Polycrates, the fortunate tyrant of 

 Samos, who threw his favourite ring into the ocean, 

 and found it again in the stomach of the first fish 

 that was served up at his table, — I should have the 

 good luck (but I by no means reckon upon it) to 

 catch a dolphin with my hat upon his head : as to 

 a porpoise, he never could squeeze his great num- 

 skull into it ; but our dolphin of last week was 

 much about my own size, and I dare say such 

 another would find my hat fit him to a miracle, and 

 look very well in it. 



December 20. 



The weather is so excessively close and sultry, 

 that it would be allowed to be too hot to be plea- 

 sant, even by that perfect model for all future 

 lords of the bedchamber, who was never known 

 to speak a word, except in praise, of any thing 

 living or dead, through the whole course of his 

 life : but, at last, one day he met with an acci- 

 dent — he happened to die ; and the next day he 

 met with another accident — he happened to be 

 damned : and immediately upon his arrival in the 

 infernal regions, the Devil (who was determined to 

 be as well bred as the other could be for his ears,) 

 came to pay his compliments to the new-comer, 

 and very obligingly expressed his concern that his 

 lordship was not likely to feel satisfied with his new 

 abode ; for that he must certainly find hell very 



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