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these, he has no other apology to offer than that of their having been written in a very desultory manner; often on a rude and boisterous element, and continually interrupted by professional avocations. He has therefore to request the reader, when he meets with any thing that offends the ear, to remember that,

"Far from the Muses' academic grove,

'Twas his, the vast and trackless deep to rovc.
Alternate change of climate had he known,
And felt the fierce extremes of either zone,
Where polar skies congeal th' eternal snow,
Or equinoctial suns for ever glow:
From regions where Peruvian billows roar
To the bleak coast of savage Labrador.

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