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might have been enabled to offer the public a more finifhed: 
picture of him. 
In the flight acquaintance made with him at Macoa and 
Canton, he hath, I truft, interefted the reader by that in¬ 
genuous opennefs, which was the refult of native fimplicity; 
he is there feen in the character of a new-born creature, 
juft entering a world he was quite a ftranger to, darting his 
bewildered eyes on every fide, and folicited by fuch a va¬ 
riety of novelty, that he knew not-where to Ax: his atten¬ 
tion. However beautiful, however ftupendous the objects 
may be which furround us, when they have been within 
our view through all the progreflive advance of early years, 
they infenftbly ceafe to engage our notice.^'The peafailt,. 
bred at the foot of /Etna or the Andes, fees with indiffer¬ 
ence thofe wonderful operations of Nature, which feduce 
fo frequently from diftant countries the inquifltive traveller. 
—The cafe of Lee Boo was diredily otherwife; if I may be 
allowed the expreflion, he was born at the ftate of manhood, 
with his mind in full vigour, and inftantly found himfelf en- 
compaffed by fcenes not only totally new, but totally beyond 
his conceptions — fcenes which to him were fo bordering 
on enchantment, that they were fufficient to have half over- 
fet the inexperienced faculties of our young traveller, had 
he not couftantly had his Mentor at his elbow to clear up 
all his difficulties, point his judgment properly, and give 
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