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Show .. . . .. .... . . ,. .... .. . .. . . . .. .·:. .. : . t I t. I t . . . . .. .. - .··..,:. ·.. ·· : .· .···.·· · ~ . .. .. . . . . ' .. . . . ... .. .. .. . .. .. ·. .. . ... ... .. .... . .. . .· .. :. t I I t ' t I' t t t t t ' t • + ·.::.:.·· ... :· .. ::. ·.·· : .. ·:.·· .. ,.·::.:: .. : · ... ,· T ODUCT 0 Few days before I embarked for America, be•i ng in a coffee-houfe with fome friends, and difcourfing of thi ngs relative to that country, an elderly gentleman advancing towards the box where we were fitting, addreffed himfelf to me in the following manner: " Sir," faid he, "you are young, " and jufi entering into the world; I am old, and upon the " point of leaving it: allow me therefore to give you one piece " of advice, which is the refult of experienc , and which may "poffibly, fome time or other, be of ufe to yon. You are " going to a country where every thing will appear new and cG wonderful to you; but it will appear fo only for a while;. " for the novelty of it will daily wear off; and in time it will " grow quite familiar to you. Let me, therefore, recommend " to you to note in your pocket- book every circum!l::ance, th at '' may make an impreffion upon you; for be affured, fir, though " it may afterward appear familiar and uninterefi:ing to your" felf, that it will not appear fo to your friends who have never ~' vifited that country, and that they will be entertained by it." The following obfervations were the refult of this advice: they we ·e written upon the feveral fpots to which th ey refer; a!1d were inten ded for no other purpofe , than that of fe rving as J.ucmorandums. They appeared, by the time that I ret urn ed to Europe, ~cording to the gcn tleman's prediction, f<J very f,l- ...f H'litar to me, t h::tt I fcarcely thou13ht the :-n defi·rv ing of t h.~ A 3 F crufal |