MY reading ably desultory and immet of treatises,  of my notions, and  relates to science, I am a  a figure among try gentlemen, in king Joanding. to me a map of old Ortelius is as autic as Arro knoo Asia; est conjecture of tion of Ne do I -named of terrae Incognitae. I ronomy. I do not knoar; or t sig Venus only by ness -- and if tentous morn o make  appearance in t, I verily believe, t, errified, from sy and  of observation. Of ory and cs, suc udy; but I never deliberately sat doo a cry. I  dim appre monarcimes times ts as first in my fancy. I make t conjectures concerning Egypt, and  painstaking, got me to tood t proposition in Euclid, but gave me over in despair at tirely unacquainted ter man t;small Latin and less Greek.quot; I am a stranger to texture of t trees,  from tance of my being to spirit into t seen it in quot;on Devons leafy s; -- and am no less at a loss among purely tos, tools, engines, mec t I affect ignorance -- but my  many mansions, nor spacious; and I o fill it  curiosities as it can  acimes tle discredit in tock. But t is, a man may do very tle kno, in mixed company; every body is so muco produce o call for a display of your acquisitions. But in a tete-a-tete trut. t alone for a quarter of an  does not knoely got into a dilemma of t. -

    In one of my daily jaunts beto take up a staid-looking gentleman, about ty, ions (ing), in a tone of mild auty, to a tall youto be neit, but sometaking of all turally enougion to me; and s of ty and punctualit