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54 THE SEEDSMAN, NUMISMATIST.
ofsered money if any would bring iucli-like to
me. I have got at one time and another eleven
ounces os raver, in coins brought by them." He
will not sell his collection at present, or any part
of it.
Such were the least enlightened, yet valuable,
portion of my fellow-travellers. There were
others whosc gentlemanly manners and attain-
ments did honour to the country which gave
them birth. I argued with one on the unjust
prejudices entertained and disseminated by cer-
tain writers and travellers, who in their works
and conversations appear to have visited places
and countries for the express purpose of spread-
ing the catalogue of their defects; which, is
carefully examined, will generally prove to have
arisen from their own discontents and peculiar
turn of mind. The Divinity hath planted hon-
our and virtue in every soil: the same Sun lights
the Earth, and the same Moon rules the night,
in every quarter of our world ; the same mode of
ascent and descent of aioisture prevails; and yet,
when a man is from home his jaundiced mind
points out a. thousand variations unknown to
nature. He compares his manners with those
who surround him; and, sinding an eiTential
disserence, he throws aside the necesiary conse-
quences..
ofsered money if any would bring iucli-like to
me. I have got at one time and another eleven
ounces os raver, in coins brought by them." He
will not sell his collection at present, or any part
of it.
Such were the least enlightened, yet valuable,
portion of my fellow-travellers. There were
others whosc gentlemanly manners and attain-
ments did honour to the country which gave
them birth. I argued with one on the unjust
prejudices entertained and disseminated by cer-
tain writers and travellers, who in their works
and conversations appear to have visited places
and countries for the express purpose of spread-
ing the catalogue of their defects; which, is
carefully examined, will generally prove to have
arisen from their own discontents and peculiar
turn of mind. The Divinity hath planted hon-
our and virtue in every soil: the same Sun lights
the Earth, and the same Moon rules the night,
in every quarter of our world ; the same mode of
ascent and descent of aioisture prevails; and yet,
when a man is from home his jaundiced mind
points out a. thousand variations unknown to
nature. He compares his manners with those
who surround him; and, sinding an eiTential
disserence, he throws aside the necesiary conse-
quences..