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ted the very fight of them, and had it been in my power, would ſoon have baniſhed them out of my fight and the country too. The aforeſaid gentleman took a walk one day, and when he returned, he told my uncle, that one of his ſlaves was that day going to be dipt by a man that looked more like a hangman than a prieſt; this much diſpleaſed me I immediately replied, that I wondered gentlemen of note would ſuffer ſuch fellows to go about the country cheating and deceiving poor ignorant people in ſuch a manner. My uncle ſaid he would go and flog the ſlave home and not ſuffer the dirty wench to be ſo deluded, were it not that a gentleman had appointed to viſit him that day I told him I would go, if he would furniſh me with a carriage. Accordingly I went. I no ſooner came to the place, than I ſaw the miniſter, and knew as ſoon as I ſaw him, although I never ſaw him before, that it was the ſame man as I ſaw in my dream, that handed me the ball of thread and helped me out of the pit. The ſight of this man ſo affected my mind, that I was as one thunderſtruck. He was the very one whom I ſaw amongſt the ſhining throng of happy people, and I amongſt the accurſed black crew. I then thought I was curſed in very deed, which flung me immediately almoſt into deſpair; and thus in the greateſt agony, I fell to the earth. Viewing myſelf undone for ever, and eter-
