together in a manner extensively adapted to their various turns of understanding, taste and temper; which people of different and distant countries, through a long succession of ages, have held in so much reverence, and read with so much advantage; where it is so difficult to determine, which are more distinguished, ease and simplicity, or sublimity and force, but where all are so beautifully united; where there is so little to discourage the weakest spirit, if docile, and so much to gratify the strongest, if candid--where the frailties, disorders and distresses of human nature, are all so feelingly laid open and the remedies which Heaven provided are so tenderly applied.

And ought I to omit to declare, that although misfortune had placed me in the hands of a barbarous people, although seperated from every christian friend, and experiencing all the hardships and privations peculiar to those who are so unfortunate as to fail into the hands of a merciless race, yet, from this sacred volume, I derived more comfort, more sweet consolation, secluded as I was from the civilized world, than the most fashionable amusements of the most populous cities in Europe, could have afforded me! Ah, ye fair ones of Britain, who doat on the parade of public assemblies, and sail along in the full blown pride of fashionable attire, of which the least appendage or circumstance must not be discomposed; thoughtless of human woe; insensible to the sad condition of those like myself