tain them, if we will add to afking an induftry and prudence in acquiring, and take care by culture, to bring up the feeds of virtue and holinefs. This is enough to make us as happy here as reason can defire. We have a fufficiency to go through this world to that other where we are to be ftationed for ever, and against the accidents of the way, we have the supports which innocence and virtue to the good adminifter. Peace and tranquillity of mind here, and hopes full of comfort with respect to hereafter, are the ingredients of our happiness; a happiness the greatest! and we are certain that he, upon whofe mercy and goodness we confess we exift, will, in regard to our confidence and trust, our faith and religion, when this fleeting scene is over, make us glorious and ever bleffed in the kingdom he has prepared for those that rely on the Divine Goodness, and do their best to advance the ftate of true virtue in the world. Let us not regret, then, the want of a cafle of wishes. Let us not have a defire of that wealth, dominion and fplendor, which lives in contempt of the prophets, and riots in the heinous pleasures of irreligion. Let our great Mafter's Will be made the rule of all our actions, and let his intereft be regarded, as our intereft. Let us confult his honour, as cur own honour; and having food and raiment, P 3 Adefcrip natural mountains more. June 14, 1725 raiment, be content, as we are hafting away with a never ceafing pace, to the realms of eternity and unmixed blifs. This is reafon light. This only deferves our care. There is nothing worth wishing for, but the happinefs of God's prefence in our hearts; and the more immediate communications of his love and favour in the regions of day. 43. Thus did reflexion entertain me, as I ol a rid up this grand fhady walk, which looked grotto in like the avenue I had read of in the Tales of one of the the Fairies, and brought me to a natural of Stane grotto, more beautiful than Elian's defcription of Atalanta's, or that in Homer, where Calypfos lived. It was a large cavern at the bottom of a marble mountain, and without, was covered round with ivy, that clung about fome aged oaks, (on either fide the entrance) that feemed coeval with the earth on which they grew. Abundance of large laurel trees, in clumps, adorned an extenfive area before the door; and faffron, and hyacinths, and flowers of many colours, covered in confufed fpots the carpet green. The beautiful ground refreshed the fight, and purified the air and to enhance the beauties of the fpot, a clear and cold stream gushed from a neighbouring rock; which watered the trees and plants, and feemed to combat with the earth, whether of them moft contributed to their growth and prefervation. It was a fweet sweet rural scene. For charms and folitude the place was equally to be admired. The infide of this grotto was a beautiful green marble, extremely bright, and even a proaching to the appearance of the emerald. It was thick fet with fheils, and those not small ones, but fome of the largest and finest kinds many of them feemed, as it were, fqueezed together by the marble, fo as to fhew the edges only; but more were to be feen at large, and filled with the pureft fpar. The whole had a fine effect, and as the cave had been divided by art into fix fine apartments, and had doors and chimnies moft ingeniously contrived, both the mansion and its fituation charmed me in a high degree. It was a beautiful habitation indeed. On either fide of it were many cottages, pretty and clean, and as sheep were feeding on the field, fome cows grazing, and various kinds of tame fowl before the doors, I concluded it was an inhabited place, before I faw any one. of Azora. 44. The first human being I beheld, was The hiftory an old woman, who appeared at the grotto door, and I requested her to inform me, who lived in this delightful place ;-and which was my best way to Cumberland or Bishoprick? Sir, (replied the good old woman) you are welcome to Burcott-Lodge. Women only are the inhabitants of this fpot: and over the P 4 hills hills before you, you must go, to get to the She was attended by ten young women, ftraight, clean, handsome girls, and furpaffed them in tallnefs. Her countenance was mafThe picture culine, but not auftere: her fine blue eyes of Azora. discovered an excellence of temper, while they fhewed the penetration of her mind. Her hair was brown, bright and charming; and nature had ftamped upon her cheeks a colour, that exceeded the most beautiful red of the fineft flower. It was continually as the maiden blush of a modeft innocence. She was dreft in a fine woollen ftuff, made in the manner fhepherdeffes are painted, and on her head had a band or fillet like what the ladies now wear, with a bunch of artificial flowers in her hair. She had a very small straw hat on.In her hand, the held a long and pretty pretty crook and as her coats were short, her feet were feen, in black filk fhoes, and the finest white stockings, and appeared vaftly pretty. She ftruck me greatly. She was a charming, and uncommon figure. When I came up to Azora, I could hardly forbear addreffing her, as the fon of Ulyffes did the fupernal,- O vous, qui que vous foiez, mortelle ou deeffe (quoiqu'a vous voir on ne puiffe vous prendre que pour une divinité) feriez-vous infenfible au malheur d'un fils, qui -Whoever you are, a mortal or a goddess, tho' fure your afpect fpeaks you all divine, can you, unmoved, behold a hapless fon, by fate expelled, and urged by unrelenting rage, to wander thro' the world, exposed to winds and feas, and all the ftrokes of adverse fortune, till he arrived in this land of felicity and peace?—But on better thoughts, I only faid, I am your most humble fervant, madam, and told her I believed I had loft my way, and knew not where to go;-To which the replied, you are welcome, fir, to our hamlet, and to the beft entertainment it affords: only tell me, she added with a smile, what could induce you to travel this unbeaten Foad-and how did you pafs the precipices and rivers you must have met with in the way?Curiofity, madam, (I answered) was one caufe; that I might fee a country no |