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At the same time I saw apelican. Is it not strange that we Sept. 1790. have no true account or picture of this bird ? It is one of the most beautiful in nature ; being indeeda large swan, almost twice as big as a tame one ; snow-white, and elegantly shaped. Only its neck is three quarters of a yard long, and capable ofbeing so distended as to contain two gallons of liquid or solid. She builds her nest in some wood, not far from a river ; from which she daily brings a quantity of fish to her young : This she carries in her neck, (the only pouch which she has,) andthen divides it among her young ; and hence is fabricated the idle tale of her feeding them with her blood. -. I went over to Thornbury, and preached at noon to avery large and deeply serious congregation. In the evening we had a solemnwatch-night at Kingswood. Saturday, 18. I calledupon Mr. Easterbrook, ill ofa disorder which no Physician understands, and which it seems God alone can cure. Heis a pattern to all Bristol, and indeed to all England; having beside hisother incessantlabours, which never were intermitted,preached in every house in his parish ! It waswhile he was preachingin his own church, that hewas suddenly struck with a violent pain in his breast. This confounds all the Physicians, and none of their medicines alter it. -Mr. Collins assisted me in the morning, so I had aneasy day's work. Monday, 20, and the next day, I read over the King of Sweden's tract upon the Balance of Power in Europe. If it be really his,he is certainly one of the most sen- sible, as well as one of the bravest, Princes in Europe ; and if his account be true, what awoman is the Czarina ! But stillGod is over all! I preached once more in Temple church, on, " All things are possible to him that believeth." Mr. Hay, the Presbyterian Minister of Lewens- mead meeting, came to desire me to let him have the use ofour preaching-house on Sundays, at those hours when we did not use it ourselves, (near ten in the morning and two in the after- noon,) while his House was re-building. To this I willingly consented, and he preached an excellent sermon there the next