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sleep in my life : 5. Two violent fevers, and two deep consump- tions. These, it is true, were rough medicines ; but they were of admirable service; causing my flesh to come again, as the flesh of a little child. May I add, lastly, evenness of temper ? I feel and grieve ; but, by the grace of God, I fret at nothing. But still " the help that is done upon earth, He doeth it him- self. " And this he doeth in answer to many prayers. Mon. JULY 1.-I preached, about eleven, to a numerous and serious congregation at Pocklington. In myway from hence to Malton, Mr. C (a man of sense and veracity) gave me the following account :-His grandfather, Mr. H , he said, about twenty years ago, ploughing up a field, two or three miles from Pocklington, turned up a large stone, under which he per- ceived there was a hollow. Digging on, he found, at a small distance, a large, magnificent house. He cleared away the earth ; and, going into it, found many spacious rooms. The floors of the lower story were of Mosaic work, exquisitely wrought. Mr. C- himself counted sixteen stones within an inch square. Many flocked to see it, from various parts, as long as it stood open: But after some days, Mr. P (he " [July, 1776. knew not why) ordered it to be covered again ; and he would never after suffer any to open it, but ploughed the field all over. This is far more difficult to account for, than the subterraneous buildings at Herculaneum. History gives us an account of the time when, and the manner how, these were swallowed up. The burning mountain is still assured, and the successive lavas that flowed from it still distinguishable. But history gives no account of this, nor of any burning mountains in our island. Neither do we read of any such earthquake in England, as was capable ofworking that effect. Tues. 2.-I went to York. The House was full enough in the evening, while I pointed the true and the false way of expounding those important words, "Ye are saved through faith. " Wednesday, 3. I preached about noon at Tadcaster, with an uncommon degree of freedom ; which was attended with a remarkable blessing. A glorious work is dawning here,