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Rh will be informed in the Hitory of his Life. It may not be improper, however, in this Place, to give the Reader ome Account of the Philoopher who hid this Treaure, and took o much Pains to find a true and real Friend to enjoy it. As Tom had Reaon to venerate his Memory, he very particular in his Enquiry, and had this Character of him;—that he was a Man well acquainted with Nature and with Trade; that he was pious, friendly, and of a weet and affable Dipoition. That he had acquired a Fortune by Commerce, and having no Relations to leave it to, he travelled through Arabia, Peria, India, Libia and Utopia in earch of a real Friend. In this Puruit he found everai with whom he exchanged good Offices, and that were polite and obliging, but they often flew off for Trifles; or as oon as he pretended to be in Ditres, and requeted their Aitance, left him to truggle with his own Difficulties. So true is that Copy in our Books, which ays, Adverity is the Touchtone of Freindhip. At lat, however, he Rh