Ideal Inference.
This Book, perhaps, may soon its way explore,
And find a welcome, on each Foreign ſhore;
Perhaps thro' Europe may, in time, be spread,
Or by the tawny African be read:
Its novelty may strike, perhaps it may,
In time, reach Borneo, Pekin, or Bombay;
At either India, may, perhaps, be found,
Or at Kamschatka seen, or Nootka Sound.
Ev’n Kings and Princes, here may deign to look,
Or smiles of British Beauties grace the book:
My Learned Countrymen[1] and Sages rare,
The whole design, perhaps, may scan with care;
And whilst each trophied emblem they peruse,
May feel half tempted to forgive the Muse,
Nay, Foreign Merchants, when they this look o'er,
To view this Place, may quit their Native Shore;
And when 'The Toy Shop of the World' they see,
May own (O! vain surmise) 'twas all thro' me!
In regions yet unknown, or lands remote,
The Natives, thus, may hear of Vulcan's spot;
And whilst, with wonder, they each print survey,
Some information of the Arts convey;
- ↑ In Scotia.
