TRAVELLING, (Sc. a 
more or lefs cultivated, fo the profefibrs of 
it will be more or lefs Ikillful ; as at this 
time the hofpitals at London both for 
number and goodnefs exceed all others, at 
Paris chirurgical operations, at Leyden, ana* 
tomical preparations, at Oxford botanical col- 
lections ; tho’, i fay, this may be the cafe, yet 
i cannot think, that thofe aCt prudently, or 
enough confult the good of themfelves, and 
countrey, who feek for that abroad, which may 
be had at home, and who travel to foreign uni- 
verfities, before they have laid a fufficient 
foundation in their own countrey. And there 
b no doubt but that they who do fo will at 
laft repent of their error. He, who goes 
abroad raw* and ignorant, feldom returns more 
learned. Whereas, he, who has fpent his time 
well at his own univerfity, will never find rea- 
fon to repent. Whoever has r employed him- 
felf properly in the fttidy of the arts, and fci- 
ences will become an ufefull, and folid man in 
every branch 6f bufinefs. Whoever, before he 
fets out to vifit regions warmed by other funs, 
has laid the firft foundations of his iludies in 
his native countrey, will be moil likely to bring 
back materials of far greater price, than we 
ufually fee amongft the greateft part of our 
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