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more lively, but more innumber, than ever they were before. Tues. 27.-I saw amelancholy sight indeed! One that ten years ago was clearly perfected in love ; but was worried by Mr. , day and night, threaping him down he was in a delusion, that at length it drove him stark mad. And so he continues to this day. Observe ! it was not Perfection drove this manmad, but the incessant teasing him with doubtful dis- putations. Wed. 28.-I had promised to preach at six in the morning, to the poor prisoners at Whiteley. Though the ground was covered with snow, so many people flocked together, that Iwas constrained to preach in the court of the prison. The snow continued to fall, and the north wind to whistle round us ; but I trust God warmed many hearts. I preached at Wakefield in the evening ; Thursday, 29, at Rothwell and Leeds ; and on Friday noon, at Harewood. In the afternoon we walked to Mr. Lascelles's house. It is finely situated on a little eminence, commanding a most delightful prospect of hill anddale, and wood and water. It is built of a fine white stone, with two grand and beautiful fronts. I was not much struck with anything within. There is too much sameness in all the great houses I have seen in England; two rows of large, square rooms, with costly beds, glasses, chairs, and tables. But here is a profusion of wealth ; every pane of glass, we were informed, cost six-and-twenty shillings. One looking-glass cost five hundred pounds, and one bed, six hundred. The whole floor was just on the plan of Montague-House : now the British Museum. The grounds round the house are plea- sant indeed, particularly the walks on the river-side, and through May, 1779.1 the woods. But what has the owner thereof, savethe beholding them with his eyes ? Sat. MAY 1.-I looked over the first volume of Mr. Bryant's "Ancient Mythology." He seems to be a person of immense reading, and indefatigable industry. But I have two objections to thewhole work : 1. That his discoveries, being built chiefly on etymologies, carry no certainty in them. 2. That were they ever so certain, they are of no consequence. For instance, Whether Chiron was a man or a mountain, and whether the Cyclops were giants or watch-towers,-are points of no manner