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i8 A TOUR THROUGH
south. We are not apt to suppose it; but
probably a great part of our pleasures and
pains depend upon such trivial causes,
though always ascribed to something else ;
few people being willing to own thcmselves
like a weathercock, affected by every blast.
Indeed we mould have naturally imputed it
to the grief of parting with that excellent
family whom you know so well; which
no person could ever leave without regret,
or see without pleasure; but the agreeable
prospecl: of soon meeting again (probably
better qualified to amuse and entertain
themj absorbed all melancholy thoughts;
and even added to that alacrity, which
the delightful tour before us had already
inspired.
We sailed at five; and after firing our
farewel signals to our friends on shore,
(whom we discovered with our glasses at
some miles distance) we soon found our-
selves in the middle of the bay of Naples,
surrounded
south. We are not apt to suppose it; but
probably a great part of our pleasures and
pains depend upon such trivial causes,
though always ascribed to something else ;
few people being willing to own thcmselves
like a weathercock, affected by every blast.
Indeed we mould have naturally imputed it
to the grief of parting with that excellent
family whom you know so well; which
no person could ever leave without regret,
or see without pleasure; but the agreeable
prospecl: of soon meeting again (probably
better qualified to amuse and entertain
themj absorbed all melancholy thoughts;
and even added to that alacrity, which
the delightful tour before us had already
inspired.
We sailed at five; and after firing our
farewel signals to our friends on shore,
(whom we discovered with our glasses at
some miles distance) we soon found our-
selves in the middle of the bay of Naples,
surrounded