before they fet out, Jack laboured with indefatigable zeal to finifh a couple of faddles and a dozen horse-shoes, which he presented to the Khan, with many expreffions of gratitude. The Khan was charmed with this proof of his affection, and in return made him a present of a couple of fine horfes, and feveral valuable skins of beafts. Jack arrived without any accident at the English fettlements, and felling his skins and horfes, found himself in poffeffion of a moderate fum of money. He now began to have a defire to return to England, and one of the officers, who had often been obliged to him during his captivity, procured him a discharge. He embarked, therefore, with all his property on board

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a fhip, which was returning home, and in a few months was fafely landed at Plymouth.

But Jack was too active and too prudent to

give himself up to idlenefs. After confidering various fchemes of business, he determined to take up his old trade of forging; and for that purpose made a journey into the North, and found his old mafter alive, and as active as ever. His mafter, who had always entertained an efteem for Jack, welcomed him with great affection, and being in want of a foreman, he engaged him at a very handfome price for that place. Jack was now indefatigable in the execution of his new office; inflexibly honeft where the interefts of his mafter were concerned, and at the fame time humane and obliging to the men who were under him, he gained the affection of all about him. In a few years, his master was fo thoroughly convinced of his merit, that growing old himself, he took Jack into partnership, and committed the management of the whole bufinefs to his care. He continued to exert the fame qualities now which he had done before, by which means he improved the bufinefs fo much, as to gain a confiderable fortune, and become one of the moft refpectable manufacturers in the country.-But, with all this profperity, he never difcovered the least pride or haughtiness; on the contrary, he employed part of his fortune to purchase the moor where he formerly lived, and built himself a small, but convenient house, upon the very spot where his dad

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dy's hut had formerly ftood. Hither he would fometimes retire from bufinefs, and cultivate his garden with his own hands for he hated id'enels.

To all his poor neighbours he was kind and liberal, relieving them in their diftress, and often entertaining them at his houfe, where he used to dine with them, with the greateft affability, and frequently relate his own ftory, in order to prove that it is of very little confequence how a man comes into the world, provided he behaves well, and discharges his duty when he is in it.

A SKETCH OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY:

ADVERTISEMENT.

Twas written by a gentleman for the ufe of

HE following Sketch of Universal History

two young ladies, and not intended for publication; but as it was defigned to fupply what he thought was wanting to give the minds of children some idea of general hiftory, and as it perfectly answered the purpose for which he compofed it, he has been induced to publish it, that others might reap the fame advantage which thofe have for whofe ufe it was particularly compofed.

There are, it is true, many abridgments of Sacred, Greek, Roman, and English History; but fome short sketch of General History seems wanting, that the learner may be enabled to fee how the separate parts are connected with each other. This deficiency is here attempted to be fupplied; and as young minds are too volatile to be long fixed, it is drawn on as small a scale as poffible: on the fame account it was thought proper not to load it with chronological dates, but to throw it into a concise and fimple narrative, that the connection of the fucceffive events with each other might be readily acquired, and easily retained when acquired.

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The author has carefully avoided the giving a greater fpace to thofe circumstances which are nearest the present time; for though in larger histories this must neceffarily happen, from the increafing quantity of materials, yet it is a fault in a work of this fort, fince it tends to impress on the ductile imagination of youth wrong ideas of chronology, which are not easily eradicated, as the mind will be apt to connect the length of the æra with the number of the pages it occupies.

The author of thefe fheets is free to confefs, that his own imagination, even in riper years, was so much biaffed by this early prejudice, that it coft fome pains to correct it; and he will venture to say, that many persons of no inconfiderable historical knowledge will find the time bestowed on a careful perufal of this Sketch, accompanied with an inspection of Doctor Priestley's Hiftorical and Biographical Charts, by no means thrown away.

tures. We have there an account of the creation of the world, the destruction of it by the Flood, the renewal of mankind by the family of Noah,

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