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 me, he could not have thought the world was so big. These were his very words—and was not it mighty natural?

To shew how much of the natural he had in him, I cannot refrain from adding, that, having past a turnpike or two, for the first time, in this excursion, he was in raptures at the piety of the people thereabouts; for he told me, that they had the Belief and the Ten Commandments painted upon blue boards at every gate—though he past through and could not read them, having left his spectacles at home.

Pardon, gentle Reader, this digression, which has informed you of an anecdote rather extraordinary. If you do not believe it, and should find out the subject, who was himself the narrator; don't venture to tell him so—He is a passionate man, rather inclined to let blood, and may perhaps, if you commit yourself to him, put you to death.

To return to business—The letters I have received have required a clever arrangement;