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TRAVELLING SUNDAYS, 
opportunities he had of making collections of curiofities, and 
the elegant tafte he has here fhewn, in this age of improvement 
in gardening, are very demonftrable. I am very fmcerely 
yours, 
LETTER VIII. 
T o Mrs. O * * * * * *> 
M A D A M, 
A Sabbath day’s journey among the jews was not to exceed 
two thoufand cubits, making about the eighteenth part of 
a mile. I prefume they meant by this, that there fhould not be 
any travelling, properly fo called, unlefs in cafes of very urgent, 
neceflity, which deftroyed the common idea of travelling. 
Would to God that chriftians were lefs faulty in this particular ! 
I hope he will forgive me : I have often travelled on a funday, 
tho’ feldom without going to church in the morning. I would 
now have paid my devotion to heaven first, and to you, as 
one of the objeCts moft worthy attention in the vifible world, 
in the fecond place ; but you urged the neceflity of going im- 
mediately to Salisbury to fee your friends, who were on the 
point of leaving that place. 
I thought it a happinefs that we had jufi time to take our 
leave of our charming fellow pafTenger Mifs LI*#***; and 
after difcharging our reckoning at the dolphin, we fet out. 
Travelling a little way on the banks of Southampton water, near 
the entrance of the tees, we directed our courfe to rumsey a. 
market-town, famous for its antiquity, and for giving birth to 
the ingenious sir william pettit. It is diftant eight miles. The 
country 
