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xiv ting neither—but at length espying something like an island unknown; it is perhaps more like an owzle than any one laid down in the charts. They do actually discover, however, that the natives will not let them go ashore, and that they must return as wise as they came. They discover that they have little left to eat, and less to drink; that they must live by sucking each others shirts for half a year, arrive miraculously at home, and write a book about it.

My Correspondents are of a different stamp; they discover that there is much left unfound out at home; and seem to be meritoriously employed in consequence. Going abroad, with them, I take to be only going out of the house and seeing the world, a laudable ride of a dozen miles. This opinion of seeing the world tempts me to digress a little. My apothecary, a man of knowledge and judgment, but who, no more than myself, had ever been above six miles from home, being obliged to visit a patient at the distance of twenty, actually returned in amazement, and assured