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 Ogil.]. And how long has he been with me?

Cool.) Only ſince we paſſed Brand's Lee, but now he is gone.

Ogil.]. We are juſt now upon Elenſcleugh, and I deſire to part with you, though perhaps I have gained more by our converſation, than I would have done otherwiſe in a twelvemonth. I chuſe rather to ſee you another time, when you are at leiſure, and I wiſh it were at as great a diſtance from Innerwick as you can.

Cool.) Be it ſo, Sir, I hope you will be as obliging to me next rencounter, as I have been to you this.

Ogil.] I promiſe you I will, in as far as it is conſiſtant with my duty to my and ; and ſince you have obliged me ſo much by information, I will anſwer all the queſtions you propoſe, as far as, conſists with my knowledge, but I believe you want no information from me.

Cool.) I come not to be inſtructed by you; but I want your help of another kind.

Upon the ninth of April 1724, as I was returning from Oldhamſtock, Cool came up with me on horſeback, at the foot of the ruinous incloſure, before we come to Dod; I told him his laſt converſation had proved ſo acceptable to me, that I was well pleaſed to ſee him again, and that there was a vaſt number of things that I wanted to inform myſelf