which people soon find out from their own Observations, which they will generally find their best Guide.

There is perhaps no article of our usual Diet, however Insignificant or however Important, which has not been at one time highly extolled, and at another extremely abused, by those who have published Books on Diet, who, wedded to their own whimsies, and estimating the Strength of other Men's Stomachs by the Weakness of their Own, have, as the fit took 'em, attributed "all the Evils flesh is heir to," to eating either too much or too little-Salt, Sugar, Spice,Bread,―Butter,-Pastry,-Poultry,- Pork, -Veal,-Beef,-Lamb, and indeed all Meats, excepting Mutton, have been alternately prescribed and proscribed.

Different degrees of Labour of Mind and of Body, Different Employments, Different Professions, Different Ages, and Different

Constitutions, require different degrees of Refreshment-what is absolutely necessary for one, may be extremely noxious to another. What is the quantity, the quality, and the frequency with which various Stimuli are required, only the Experience of the Individual can ascertain with due Accuracy; and in these matters every Man must be in a great degree his own Physician: hence the sensible old saying, that "At Forty, a Man is either a Fool or a Physician!" By that time a Man is fairly entitled to be called a Fool, if he has not found out what is agreeable, and what is offensive to his Constitution-a prudent Traveller will cautiously abstain from every thing that his own Experience has taught him is apt to produce Indigestion.

OF

A TRAVELLER'S APPEARANCE.

WEAR a plain Dress;

upon no account

display any Ring, Watch, Trinkets, &c. nor assume any Airs of Consequence.

Be Liberal.—The advantages of a Reputation for Generosity which a person easily acquires, and the many petty annoyances he entirely avoids, by the annual disbursement of Five pounds worth of Shillings and Half Crowns, will produce him five times as much Satisfaction as he can obtain by spending that sum in any other way-it does not depend so much upon a man's general Expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely

-where it is proper to give at all-he who gives Two Shillings is called Mean, while he who gives Half a Crown is considered Generous; so that the difference of these two opposite characters depends upon Sixpence.

He shall not be accused of Prodigality, in whose accounts not a more extravagant charge appears than such a sum set down annually for "Good Humour."

To

Those who Travel for Pleasure must not disquiet their Minds with the cares of too great Economy, or, instead of the Pleasure, they will find nothing but Vexation. Travel agreeably, one must spend freely: 'tis the way to be respected by every Body, and to gain Admittance Everywhere. Since 'tis but once in your Life that you undertake such a Thing, 'tis not worth while to be anxious about saving a few Pounds.

"A Traveller stopt at a Widow's Gate,

She kept an Inn, and he wanted to bait:

But the Widow she slighted her guest;

For when Nature was making an ugly face,
She certainly moulded the traveller's face,
As a sample for all the rest.

A Bag full of Gold on the table he laid;

'T had a wondrous effect on the Widow and Maid, And they quickly grew marvellous civil:

The money immediately alter'd the case;

They were charm'd with his hump, and his snout, and

his face,

Though he still might have frighten'd the Devil."

Part of a Ballad by George Colman the Younger.

However, affect not the Character of a Magnificent Fool, whose greatness is manifest merely in the superior fault of squandering profusely.

Some Silly Travellers spend so much in seeing other Men's Lands, that they are obliged, on their return, to Sell their Own.

Never talk of your Affairs to Strangers, or to your fellow Travellers, neither of the