This may have produced ſome embarraſſments, and ſome ſeeming contradictions. What I have written has been the amuſement of ſome ſolitary hours, and has ſerved to divert ſome melancholy reflections. - I am conſcious I undertook a taſk to which I was very unequal; but I have diſcharged a part of my duty. - You will at leaſt be pleaſed with it, as the laſt mark of your father's love and attention.
THE END OF THE FATHER'S LEGACY
