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 *tain, who had not remarked this expression, proceeded; "I often in fine weather, at sea, read books of amusement, and sometimes on shore; I have lately read your Orphan of Pembroke, which my niece Maria here agrees with me in admiring very highly; but there is one of the characters that she likes beyond all others,—he that proves the hero of the piece; the Sea Captain. But do not you think he is rather too refined for our service?" To be sure, young men are now better prepared than they were in my time, and I will honestly confess, they are as far before us in point of civilization, aswhat shall I say, Hamilton? Help me out with a simile." "Why, sir, as you are before Smollet's Tom Bowling, Trunnion, Hatchway, and Tom Pipes; the difference, you will please to observe, is chiefly in the manners, and keeps pace with the pro