my office, by taking a curfory furvey of what is ufually called The TOWN. In this I fhall not confine myself to the exact method of a geographer, but carry the reader fom one quarter to another, as it may fuit my convenience, or beft contribute to his entertainment.
WHEN a comedian, celebrated for his excellence in the part of Shylock, firft undertook that character, he made daily vifits to the center of business, the 'Change and the adjacent coffee-houses; that by a frequent intercourse and converfation with "the unforeskinn'd race," he might habituate himself to their air and deportment. A like defire of penetrating into the most secret springs of action in these people has often led Me there; but I was never more dis verted than at Garraway's a few days before the drawing of the lottery. I not only could read hope, fear, and all the various paffions excited by a love of gain, strongly pictured in the faces of those who came to buy; but I remarked with no lefs delight, the many little artifices made ufe of to allure adventurers, as well as the vifible alterations in the looks of the fellers, according as the demand for tickets gave occafion to raise or lower their price. So deeply were the countenances of thefe bubble-brokers impreffed with