Time, and formed his only Amuſement. He at laſt completed a moſt excellent Plan; and very ſorry we are, that it is not in our Power to preſent it to our Reader, ſince even the Luxury of the preſent Age, I believe, would hardly match it. It had, indeed, in a ſuperlative Degree, the two principal Ingredients which ſerve to recommend all great and noble Deſigns of this Nature: For it required an immoderate Expence to execute, and a vaſt Length of Time to bring it to any Sort of Perfection. The former of theſe, the immenſe Wealth of which the Captain ſuppoſed Mr. Allworthy poſſeſſed, and which he thought himſelf ſure of inheriting, promiſed very effectually to ſupply; and the latter, the Soundneſs of his own Conſtitution, and his Time of Life, which was only what is called Middle Age, removed all Apprehenſion of his not living to accompliſh.
Nothing was wanting to enable him to enter upon the immediate Execution of this Plan, but the Death of Mr. Allworthy; in calculating which he had employed much of his own Algebra; beſides purchaſing every Book extant that treats of the Value of Lives, Reverſions, &c. From all which, he ſatisfied himſelf, that as he had everyDay
