6S Of BLANDFORD/ 
a long hour, as little to the benefit of your health, as this in- 
terruption of fleep might be ? In fpite of this accident your vi- 
vacity was not diminifhed, nor cbnfequently the pleafure you 
gave your friends. 
BlandfOrd is a pretty neat market town. It is built chiefly 
of ftone, and is in fome meafure obliged to the flames for its 
prefent elegance. We were now not above ten miles from 
pool, and confequently yet within the fcent of the fea, which 
adds to the foftnefs of the air, and renders this a healthy fitua- 
tion. 
The church here is advantageoufly fituated, near the centre 
of the town ; and if we may judge from the tomb Hones, this 
place enjoys its fhare of good fenfe, v/ith a little more /kill in 
poetry than I had hitherto difcovered. According to my ufual 
entertainment, before my fellow travellers rife, I ftroll’d into 
the church-yard. It is a pretty, but common thought which I 
found there, in memory of a poor girl of fixteen, Henrietta 
maria Percy, and not without inftrudtion to thofe who have a 
mind to learn. 
cc See from the earth the fading lilly rife , 
“ It fprings , it grows, it flour ifhes a?td dies 4 
“ So this fair flower fcarce bloffo?n d for a day , 
Short was the bloom,, and fpeedy the decay.” • . 
I am yours, &z, 
LET' 
