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Imagination ! who can fmg thy force ? 

 " Or where defcribe the fwiftnefs of thy courfc I 

 " Soaring through air to find the bright abode, 

 " Th' imperial palace of the thundering God. 



" We on thy pinions can furpafs the wind, . 

 " And leave the rolling univerfe behind. 

 " From ftar to ftar the mental optics rove, 

 " Meafure the fkies, and range the realms above ; 

 " There in one view we grafp the mighty whole, 

 " Or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded foul/* 



What can be more beautiful and fublime ? ■ 



Ignatius Sancbo, z negro, many years fervant to the 

 Duke of Montagu, whofe fentimentai letters, fo generally- 

 known, would not difgrace the pen of an European, may 

 alfo be mentioned on this occafion ; and with regard to 

 their powers of memory and calculation, I fhall only notice 

 "Thomas Fuller, a negro, the property of a Mrs. Cox in 

 Maryland, North America ; and quote one lingular anec- 

 dote, as it is related by Dr. Rujb of Philadelphia, in a letter 

 to a gentleman at Manchefter. 



" Being travelling," fays the Do6lor, " with fome other 

 gentlemen of this city, through Maryland, and having 

 " heard of the aftonifliing powers of memory in arith^ 

 " metical calculation poffelTed by Thomas Fuller, a negro, 

 ** we fent for him ; when one of the gentlemen in com- 

 pany alked him, how many feconds a man of feventy 

 years, fome odd months, weeks and days, had lived ? 

 " He told the exa(5t number in a minute and a half. 

 1. When 



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