be a ludicrous one, but has a great Effect upon their Lives; and is this, That the Devil is at Home.  Now for their Manner of Living:  And here I have a large Field to expatiate in; but I shall reserve Particulars for my intended Discourse, and now only mention one or two of their principal Exercises.  The elder Proficients employ themselves in inspecting mores hominum multorum, in getting acquainted with all the Signs and Windows in the Town.  Some are arrived at so great Knowledge, that they can tell every time any Butcher kills a Calf, every time any old Woman’s Cat is in the Straw; and a thousand other Matters as important.  One ancient Philosopher contemplates two or three Hours every Day over a Sun-Dial; and is true to the Dial,

    ...  As the Dial to the Sun,
    Although it be not shone upon. [2]

Our younger Students are content to carry their Speculations as yet no farther than Bowling-greens, Billiard-Tables, and such like Places.  This may serve for a Sketch of my Design; in which I hope I shall have your Encouragement.  I am,

  SIR,

  Yours. [3]

I must be so just as to observe I have formerly seen of this Sect at our other University; tho’ not distinguished by the Appellation which the learned Historian, my Correspondent, reports they bear at Cambridge.  They were ever looked upon as a People that impaired themselves more by their strict Application to the Rules of their Order, than any other Students whatever.  Others seldom hurt themselves any further than to gain weak Eyes and sometimes Head-Aches; but these Philosophers are seized all over with a general Inability, Indolence, and Weariness, and a certain Impatience of the Place they are in, with an Heaviness in removing to another.

The Lowngers are satisfied with being merely Part of the Number of Mankind, without distinguishing themselves from amongst them.  They may be said rather to suffer their Time to pass, than to spend it, without Regard to the past, or Prospect of the future.  All they know of Life is only the present Instant, and do not taste even that.  When one of this Order happens to be a Man of Fortune, the Expence of his Time is transferr’d to his Coach and Horses, and his Life is to be measured by their Motion, not his own Enjoyments or Sufferings.  The chief Entertainment one of these Philosophers can possibly propose to himself, is to get a Relish of Dress:  This, methinks, might diversifie the Person he is weary of (his own dear self) to himself.  I have known these two Amusements make one of these Philosophers make a tolerable Figure in the World; with a variety of Dresses in publick Assemblies in Town, and quick Motion of his Horses out of it, now to Bath, now to Tunbridge, then to Newmarket, and then to London, he has in Process of Time brought it to pass, that his Coach and his Horses have been mentioned in all those Places.  When the