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 From the habitation of Captain, we went to , but called by the way on Mr. , the Minister of , whom we found in a hut, that is, a house of only one floor, but with windows and chimney, and not inelegantly furnished. Mr. has the reputation of great learning: he is seventy-seven years old, but not infirm, with a look of venerable dignity, excelling what I remember in any other man.

His conversation was not unsuitable to his appearance. I lost some of his good-will, by treating a heretical writer with more regard than, in his opinion, a heretick could deserve. I honoured his orthodoxy, and did not much censure his asperity. A man who has settled his opinions, does not love to have the tranquillity of his conviction disturbed; and at seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.