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 tween the value and the denomination of money, which has brought much disorder into. A sheep has always the same power of supplying human wants, but a crown will bring at one time more, at another less.

was not neglected by the piety of ardent times: it has still to show what was once a church.

In the morning we went again into the boat, and were landed on, an Island about a mile long, and perhaps half a mile broad, remarkable for pleasantness and fertility. It is verdant and grassy, and fit both for pasture and tillage; but it has no trees. Its only inhabitants were Sir and two young ladies, his daughters, with their servants.