These, and other observations, which I have made in this
excursion, will shorten my stay at London, and send me back with
a double relish to my solitude and mountains; but I shall return
by a different route from that which brought me to town. I have
seen some old friends, who constantly resided in this virtuous
metropolis, but they are so changed in manners and disposition,
that we hardly know or care for one another -- In our journey from
Bath, my sister Tabby provoked me into a transport of passion;
during which, like a man who has drank himself pot-valiant, I
talked to her in such a stile of authority and resolution, as
produced a most blessed effect. She and her dog have been
remarkably quiet and orderly ever since this expostulation. How
long this agreeable calm will last, Heaven above knows -- I flatter
myself, the exercise of travelling has been of service to my
health; a circumstance which encourages me to-proceed in my
projected expedition to the North. But I must, in the mean time,
for the benefit and amusement of my pupils, explore the depths of
this chaos; this misshapen and monstrous capital, without head or
tail, members or proportion.
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