with only the profpeca of iextending it to 

 fourteen more. Being fadly tired of a Portf- 

 itiouth inn, and feeing no profpe£t of footx 

 embarking, we have taken private lodgings 

 in the hope of paffing, more quietly, our te- 

 dious hours of waitings 



Portfmouth verifies, to our experiencCj 

 all that we had heard of its unpleafantnefs, and 

 vulgar immorality; The great objects, which 

 call forth the attention of flrarigers, are the 

 dock-yard, the Haflar hofpital, and the fine 

 walk upon the ramparts. All thefe we haVe 

 vifited, likewife South-Down caftle, and the 

 Forton and Porchefter prilons : nor have we 

 negleded that new modern meffenger the 

 telegraph, by which intelligence can be con- 

 veyed, from this place to the Admiralty^ at 

 Ghariiig-crofs, in the fhort period of ten mi-^ 

 nutes. 



Having thus exhaufted all the novelty of 

 the town and its environs, it only remains 

 to us to lapfe into the dull round of the 

 place. It is laid that iti days of peace, long 

 grafs grows upon the flreets. In time of 

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