long remain fo, in your opinion; though you may think the relator an odd man. As to that, I have nothing to say. And if oddnefs confifts in fpirit, freedom of thought, and a zeal for the divine unity; in a tafte for what is natural, antique, romantic, and wild; in honouring women, who are admirable for goodness, letters, and arts; and in thinking, after all the scenes I have gone through, that every thing here is vanity; except that virtue and charity, which gives us a right to expect beyond the grave; and procures us, in this world, the direction of infinite wisdom, the protection of infinite power, and the friendship of infinite goodness; then, may it be written on my stone,---Here lies an odd man. Thus much, gentlemen, I thought proper to fay to you, that by being acquainted with the particulars relative to the complexion, and defign of the author, you might the easier and the better comprehend the various things you will find in the work he dedicates to you. 881 I have only to add, that I wish you all happiness; that your heads may lack no ointment, and your garments be always white and odoriferous: but efpecially, may you prefs on, like true critics, towards perfection; and may blifs, glory, and honour, be your reward and your Portion. Barbican, Aug. 1. 1756. N. B. What refers to the Notes is diftinguished thus ( ). 3 A college life and courfe of reading 4 The advantages derived from natural and moral phi 5 The fuperior excellence of revelations 3 6 II 14 16 18 22 17 (5. Of Mrs. OHara's and Mrs. Crafton's grottos) 20 A converfation relating to the miracle at Babel 60 21 (6. Of the words, barbarous, balderdash, and the 67 29 The author leaves the university, and goes to fee his father in the country, but has a miferable recep- 32 (10. An account of a little public houfe, called the Conniving-house, on the fide of the bay of 34 Four remarkable things, while the storm lafted 35 The paffengers land at Whitehaven, and divide- 38 The author parts with Mifs Melmoth at the Bell, on 55 (16. An account of Eldine-hole in Derbyshire) 195 56 Account of an affemblage of columnar marble near 86 (25. A defcription of the cave near Cape-Bonn; which was the grot that Dido and Æneas fhel- 89 A rule to determine the tangents of curve lines 333 90 Microscopical obfervations on plants, infects, etc. |