Body & if not too violent, is I dare say conducive to Healthin its consequences — Run mad as often as you chuse;but do not faint —".

These were the last^^words she ever addreſsed to me...It was her dieingAdvice to her afflicted Laura, whohas ever most faithfully adhered to it.

After having attended my lamented freind to herEarlyGrave, I immediately (tho'though late at night) leftthe detested Village^{in which}where she died, & near which hadexpired my Husband & Augustus. I had not walkedmany yards from it before I was overtaken by a Stage--Coach, in which I instantly took a place, determinedto proceed in it to Edinburgh, where I hoped to find somekind some pitying Freind who would receive & com::fort me in my Afflictions.

It was so dark when I entered the Coachthat I could not distinguish the Number of myFellow-travellers; I could only perceive that theywere Many. Regardleſs however of any thing con::cerning them, I gave myself up to my own sadReflections. A ^generalmutualSilence prevailed amongstus all – A Silence, which was by nothing interruptedbut by the loud & repeated Snores of one of the Party.