A quarter of an hour a day would finish the work in five years.

The notes might be made the most amusing in the world.

I wish you would think of it.

At all events, I hope you will do something which may interest more than seven or eight people.

Your talents are too great, and your leisure time too small, to be wasted in inquiries so frivolous, (I must call them,) as those in which you have of late been too much engaged; whether the Cherokees are of the same race with the Chickasaws; whether Van Diemen's Land was peopled from New Holland, or New Holland from Van Diemen's land; what is the precise anode of appointing a headman in a village in Timbuctoo.