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my remarks on the Percies, and the battle of Chevy Chase. Approach Smallberry-green; inform my companion of my extreme intimacy with Sir Joseph Banks; my comrade happens to know him a little. Observe a person before his house, whom he insists to be, I, not to be Sir Joseph;—I ride on—my companion certainly mistaken." The Baronet, rather tiring of this, turned over a good many pages, and found "Chertsea, St. Ann's hills, house of Charles James Fox,—Fox no orator." "Original discovery," said the Doctor, "hem." "I perfectly agree with you sir, it is," "The world is totally mistaken in him." "Demonstrate to my companion, that I surpass Fox in every thing;—comrade hard-headed won't be convinced,—less agreeable than I thought him." The Baronet skipping again, dipped into "Hampton Fishery, they catch