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When I was in the centre of the sheet of water which separates Talem from Jala-Jala, I came in sight of the new domain which I had so easily acquired, and I could form some opinion of my acquisition at a glance. Jala-Jala is a long peninsula, extending from north to south, in the middle of the lake of Bay.
But to sportsmen Jala-Jala was really a "promised land;" there they always found a good pack of hounds, Indians to guide them, good stout horses to carry them across the various mountains and plains, where the stag and wild boar were to be met with most plentifully; and were they desirous of less fatiguing exercise, they only had to jump into some of our light canoes, and skim over the blue waters, shooting on their way at the hosts of aquatic birds flying around them in all directions, they could even land on the various small islands situated between Jala-Jala and the isle of Talem.
Johnson here forgot to use his favourite cure for exaggeration counting. See post, April 18, 1783. 'Round numbers, he said, 'are always false. Johnson's Works , xi. 198. The original passage is: 'Si non potes te talem facere, qualem vis, quomodo poteris alium ad tuum habere beneplacitum? De Imit. Christ. lib. i. cap. xvi. J. BOSWELL, Jun. See p. 29 of this vol.
I am therefore to digress with them. And I perceive, ere we know well where they are, they are passed from Scripture to custom. And after he saith, that we are taught by the Apostle’s example in “points of this nature, of ceremony or circumstance, ever to pitch upon habemus, or non habemus talem consuetudinem.” Ans. 1.
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