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ciable, so strangely to fly one an other, that, as great S. Austin saith, A man had rather be with his dog, than with a man whose language he understands not. Nay, this diversity of Language, makes the wisest man passe for a Fool in a strange Country, and the best man, for an excommunicated person, whose conversation all men avoid. Now, traveling takes off this curse, and this moral excommunication; by making us learn many languages, and converse freely with people of other Countryes.

5. Travelling makes us acquainted with a world of our kindred we never saw before. For, seeing we are all, come from one man at first, and consequently all a kin to one another; its but a reasonable thing, that a man should once at least in his life time, make a journey into forrein Coutries, to see his Relations, and visit this kindred: having alwayes this saying of young Joseph in his mouth; quaero fratres meos.

6. Traveling enables a man much for his Countryes service. It makes the merchant rich, by shewing him whatabounds,