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to 10 inches, is the mean distance at which common Eyes, in their mean state, see most distinctly.

When you find that the First Sight of 36

Inches focus, is hardly sufficient help to read by Candle-light to examine any very minute object i. e. to make Pens, &c., You may get the Second Sight, of 30 Inches focus. — But pray only use them, for purposes for which you find the First Sight is quite insufficient.

The following Advice of MR. GEORGE ADAMS, the Optician, is excellent :

"Those who are careful in following a regular gradation in the change of their Glasses, may preserve their Eyes to the latest period of Old Age, and even then be able to enjoy the comforts and pleasures which arise from distinct vision. Do not therefore precipitate these changes, lest you should absorb too soon the resources of Art, and not be able to find Spectacles of sufficient power."

G. A. on Vision, 8vo. 1789, p. 108. Many persons have irreparably injured their Eyes, and indeed have worn out their Sight prematurely by beginning with Spectacles of

too Short focus, i. e. which magnify too much, or as the common expression is, are too Old.

Nature soon bends to Custom. Eyes which have been excessively stimulated by too deep Magnifiers, seldom or never recover their elasticity.

CHAPTER IX.

MY GRANDMOTHER'S SPECTACLES.

How often a story like the following, is told to Opticians by persons coming to change, what They call their First Spectacles.

When their Optical friend expresses his surprise to find them choose very old Glasses of 12 or 10 inches focus, instead of the Second Sight of 30 inches focus,

* There are very few Opticians but what must have seen instances of Persons who by habituating their Eyes to Glasses of too short a focus, i. e. of too great a magnifying power, have so injured those tender organs as to deprive them of future assistance from Glasses.

This not unfrequently happens to Bargain-hunterS— who buy their Spectacles of Hawkers and Pedlars — Toy-shops, Dealers in Marine Stores, &c.

They say, "Why, when I thought that I began to want Glasses, I recollected - that there was a pair of nice New Spectacles in my Grandmother's old Bureau, and I had often heard the old Gentlewoman say, when she was past her 70th Year- that she could still see to read Charmingly with her New Spectacles!—and so I thought, that I could not do better than use those Glasses whose sight-restoring power I had been Eye-witness of. - I naturally thought, that they must surely be capital Spectacles which enabled so Old a Person to see so well and when I put them on, I was not disappointed for they made every thing appear very big indeed, and I could read the smallest print very nicely indeed — better than I had been able to do with my naked Eye for a long time past."

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I must now give you a hint, gentle Reader,— however improper such mighty Magnifiers may be for your Visual Organs preserve them with all care the occasional use of them will greatly contribute to preserve that Grand Organ your Stomach. No "Grand Gour

mand" who has any pretensions to prudence,

should venture to attend a TURTLE-FEAST* without such Sentinels on his Nose- they are absolutely as indispensable a part of the paraphernalia of the Banquet-as a Plate or a Spoon!

The Eye is a mighty and merciless enemy to the Stomach alas! as the Proverb says, "it is bigger than the Belly." Now even supposing your Eye to be as big again, — with these powerful Spectacles, your Eyes may be filled with delight, and your Stomach also: for the former, will imagine that while you

*Nothing is more difficult of digestion, or oftener requires the aid of Peristaltic Persuaders, than the glutinous Calipash, which is considered the "Bonne Bouche" of this surfeiting Farrago."

The usual allowance at a TURTLE-FEAST is 6 Pounds live weight per head :—

"At the Spanish Dinner, at the City of London Tavern, in August 1808,- 400 Guests attended, and 2500 pounds of Turtle were consumed."-See BELL'S Weekly Messenger for August 7, 1808.

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Epicure QUIN used to say that it was not safe to sit down to a Turtle Feast at one of the City Halls, without A Basket-hilted Knife and Fork."- From page 251 of the 5th Edition of THE COOK'S ORACLE, 12mo. 1823.

have been leisurely sipping a small Soupplateful, you have been swallowing an immense Tureenful: What a beautiful delusion! at once, equally delightful to your Stomach, your Eye, and your Tongue equally magnifying the pleasure of those two most troublesome of the Senses the Sight and the Taste which are ever the most irrationally importunate in their demands, and the most difficult to be satisfied!

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Whenever your Tongue cries out for more dainties, than your Stomach has previously plainly told you is agreeable to it to settle all the difference of their demands to their mutual satisfaction, you have nothing to do, but to put on your Spectacles, and you may set to at Calipash and Calipee with impunity; for, they will make "A LITTLE LARK" look like "A LARGE FOWL,"

and "A PENNY ROLL" as big as

"A QUARTERN LOAF!!! "

Some Philosophers have said, that Pain is only imaginary, we may as justly believe the same of Hunger; and if a Gentleman who eats only an Ounce of Mutton, imagines, by the aid of these magnifiers, that he has eaten

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