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and unless you are now wanting to yourself, has given you a degree of life and health, which you had not the smallest reason to expect?

65. The gentleman, who had not fufficiently condered all thele advantages, began to look a little confuled, and the phyfician thus went on. All that you have to complain of is, that you have been involuntarily your own dupe, and cheated into health and happiness. You went to doctor Ramozini, and faw a parcel of miferable wretches comfortably at din

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66. That great and worthy man is the fa

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dupe?

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ther of all about him: He knows that most of originate? the difeafes of the poor originate in their want of food and neceffaries; and therefore benevolently affifts them with better diet and clothing.

67. The rich, on the contrary, are general- vidims ? ly the victims of their own floth and intemperance; and therefore he finds it neceffary to ufe a contrary method of cure, exercise, abstinence, and mortification.

68. You, fir, have been indeed treated like rouzing. a child, but it has been for your own advantage. Neither your bed, nor meat, nor drink has ever been medicated; all the wonderful change that has been produced, has been by giving you better habits, and rouzing the flumbering powers of your own conftitution.

69. As to deception, you have none to com- ferfuaded. plain of, except what proceeded from your own foolish imagination; which perfuaded

you that a phyfician was to regulate his con- regulated? duct by the folly and intemperance of his pa

tient.

70. As to all the reft, he only promifed to exert all the fecrets of his art for your cure; and this, I am witnefs, he has done fo effect ually, that were you to reward him with half

your

promised.

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gratitude.

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your fortune, it would hardly be too much for his deferts.

71. The gentleman, who did not want either fenfe or generofity, could not help feeling the force of what was faid. He therefore made a handsome apology for his behaviour, and instantly difpatched a fervant to Doctor Ramozini, with a handfome present, and a letter expreffing the highest gratitude.

72. And to much fatisfaction did he find in the amendment of his health and spirits, that he never again relapfed into his former habits of intemperance, but by conftant exercise and intemperance? uniform noderation, cortinued free from any confiderable difeafe to a very comfortable old age.

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it will be an act of kindness to inform the moneylefs how they may reinforce their pockets. I will acquaint them with the true fecret of money-catching-the certain way to fill empty purfes-and how to keep them always full. Two fimple rules well obferved, will do the bufinefs.

2. First, let honefty and induftry be thy conftant companions; and, fecondly, fpend one penny lefs than thy clear gains. Then fhall thy hide-bound pocket foon begin to thrive,and will never again cry with the empty belly-ach neither will creditors infult thee, nor want opprefs, nor hunger bite, nor nakednefs freeze thee.

3. The whole hemifphere will shine brighter, and pleasure fpring up in every corner of

thy

thy heart.

Now, therefore, embrace thefe Bleak? rules and be happy. Banith the bleak winds of forrow from thy mind, and live independ

ent.

4. Then fhalt thou be a man, and not hide approach. thy face at the approach of the rich, nor fuffer the pain of feeling little when the fons of fortune walk at thy right hand; for independen- fleece. cy, whether with little or much, is good fortune, and placeth thee on even ground with the proudeft of the golden fleece,

5. Oh then, be wife, and let induftry walk reacheft. with thee in the morning, and attend thee until thou reacheit the evening hour for reft. Let honesty be as the breath of thy foul, and never penny. forget to have a penny, when all thy expenfes are enumerated and paid.

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6. Then fhalt thou reach the point of hap- field? piness, and independence fhall be thy fhe'd and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then fhall thy foul walk tiprightly, nor ftoop to the filken wretch becaufe he hath riches, nor pock- helmet? et an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring fet with diamonds.

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On the Boiling of Potatoes.

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HERE is nothing that would tend more to promote the confumption of potatoes, than to have the proper mode of preparing them as food, generally known. In London, this is little attended to; whereas in potatoes. Lancaster fhire and Ireland the boiling of pota

toes is brought to very great perfection indeed.

2. When prepared in the following manner, boiled. if the quality of the root be good, they may be eaten as bread, a practice not unufual in

Ireland. The potatoes fhould be, as much as feparately. poffible, of the fame fize, and the large and

fmall ones boiled feparately.

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3. They must be washed clean, and without paring or fcraping, put into a pot with cold water, not fufficient to cover them, as they will produce themfelves, before they boil, a confiderable quantity of fluid. They do not admit being put into a veffel of boiling water, like greens.

4. If the potatoes are tolerably large it will be ncceffary, as foon as they begin to boil, to throw in fome cold water, and occafionally repeat it, till the potatoes are boil. unpalatable? ed to the heart; they will otherwife crack, and burst to pieces on the outfide, whilft the infide will be nearly in a crude ftate, and unwholefome? confequently very unpalatable aud unwholefome.

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5. During the boiling, throwing in a little falt occafionally is found a great improvement, and it is certain that the flower, they are cooked the better. When boiled, pour off the water, and evaporate the moifture, by replacing the velfel in which the potatoes were boiled, once more over the. fire. This makes them remarkably dry and mealy.

6. They fhould be brought to the table with the fkins on, and eat with falt, as bread. Nothing but experience can fatisfy any one how fuperior the potatoes will be thus prepared, if the fort be good and mealy.

7. Some have tried boiling potatoes in fteam, thinking by that procefs that they must imbibe lefs water, but immerfion in water caufes the difcharge of a certain fubftance, which the team alone is incapable of doing, and by retaining which the flavour of the root is in-. jured, and they afterwards become dry by being put over the fire a fecond time withent

water.

8. With a little butter, or milk, or fifh, they

they make an excellent difh. Thefe direc- Clear. tions are to clear, that it is hardly poffible to mifta e them; and those who follow them exactly will find their potatoes furprisingly furprisingly. improved, and will be convinced that the manner of boiling them is a matter of much greater importance than has hitherto been imagined.

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HE Beaver is an amphibious quad- Beaver. TH ruped of about three feet in length; its tail, which is of an oval figure, is covered with fcales, and is about eleven inches long. He uses his tail as a rudder to direct his courfe in the water. The operations and architecture of this animal is perhaps of all rudder? others the most wonderful.

2. In places much frequented by man, the beavers neither affociate nor build habitations. But in the northern regions of both Continents, they affemble in the month of June or July, for the purposes of uniting into fociety and of building a city. From all quarters they arrive in numbers, and foon form a troop of two or three hundred.

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3. The operations and architecture of the beavers are fo well defcribed by the Count architecture? de Buffon, that we fhall lay it before our

readers nearly in his own words. The place

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of rendezvous, he remarks, is generally the rendezvous? fituation fixed upon for their eftablishment, and it is always on the banks of waters. the waters be flat, and feldom rife above their ordinary level, as in lakes, the beavers make no bank or dam.

4. But in rivers or brooks, where the

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