to the middle-aged Party of Mankind, who marched behind the Standard of Ambition. The great Road lay in a direct Line, and was terminated by the Temple of Virtue. It was planted on each Side with Lawrels, which were intermixed with Marble Trophies, Carved Pillars, and Statues of Lawgivers, Heroes, Statefmen, Philofophers, and Poets. The Perfons who travelled up this great Path, were fuch whofe Thoughts were bent upon doing eminent Services to Mankind, or promoting the Good of their Country. On each Side of this great Road were feveral Paths, that were alfo laid out in straight Lines, and ran parallel with it. These were most of them covered Walks, and received into them Men of retired Virtue, who proposed to themselves the fame End of their Journey, tho' they chose to make it in Shade and Obfcurity. The Edifices at the Extremity of the Walk were fo contrived, that we could not fee the Temple of Honour by reafon of the Temple of Virtue which stood before it. At the Gates of this Temple we were met by the Goddess of it, who conducted us into that of Honour, which was joined to the other Edifice by a beautiful Triumphal Arch, and had no other Entrance into it. When the Deity of the Inner Structure had receiv'd us, the prefented us in a Body to a Figure that was placed over the high Altar, and was the Emblem of Eternity. She fat on a Globe in the midst of a Golden Zodiac, holding the

Figure of a Sun in one Hand, and a Moon in the other. Her Head was veiled, and her Feet covered. Our Hearts glowed within us as we stood amidst the Sphere of Light which this Image caft on every Side of it.

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Having feen all that happened to this Band of Adventurers, I repaired to another Pile of Building that stood within View of the Temple of Honour, and was raifed in Imitation of it, upon the very fame Model; but at my Approach to it, I found, that the Stones were laid together without Mortar, and that the whole Fabrick ftood upon fo weak a Foundation, that it fhook with every Wind that blew. This was called the Temple of Vanity. The Goddess of it fat in the midst of a great many Tapers, that burned Day and Night, and made her appear much better than the would have done in open Day-light. Her whole Art, was to fhow her felf more beautiful and majestick than fhe really was. For which Reafon, he had painted her Face, and wore a Cluster of falfe Jewels upon her Breast: But what I more particularly obferved, was, the Breadth of her Petticoat, which was made altogether in the Fashion of a modern Fardingal. This Place was filled with Hypocrites, Pedants, Free-Thinkers, and prating Politicians; with a Rabble of those who have only Titles to make them great Men. Female Votaries crowded the Temple, choaked up the Avenues of it, and were more in Number than the Sand upon the Sea-fhore.

I made it my Business in my Return towards that Part of the Wood from whence I first fet out, to obferve the Walks which led to this Temple; for I met in it several who had begun their Journey with the Band of virtuous. Perfons, and travelled fome Time in their Company: But upon Examination I found, that there were feveral Paths which led out of the great Road into the Sides of the Wood, and ran into fo many crooked Turns and Windings, that thofe who travelled thro' them often turned their Backs upon the Temple of Virtue, then croffed the ftraight Road, and fometimes marched in it for a little Space, till the crooked Path which they were engaged in again led them into the Wood. The feveral Alleys of thefe Wanderers had their par ticular Ornaments: One of them I could not but take Notice of in the Walk of the mischie vous Pretenders to Politicks, which had at every Turn the Figure of a Person, whom by the Infcription I found to be Machiavel, pointing out the Way with an extended Finger like å Mercury.

I was now returned in the fame Manner as before, with a Design to obferve carefully every Thing that paffed in the Region of Ava rice, and the Occurrences in that Affembly, which was made up of Perfons of my own Age. This Body of Travellers had not gone far in the Third great Road, before it led them infenfibly into a deep Valley, in which they journied feveral Days with great Toil and Uneafinefs, and without the neceffary

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Refreshments of Food and Sleep. The only Relief they met with, was in a River that ran through the Bottom of the Valley on a Bed of Golden Sand: They often drank of this Stream, which had fuch a particular Quality in it, that tho' it refreshed them for a Time, it rather inflamed than quenched their Thirst. On each Side of the River was a Range of Hills full of precious Ore; for where the Rains had washed off the Earth, one might fee in feveral Parts of them long Veins of Gold, and Rocks that looked like pure Silver. We were told, That the Deity of the Place had forbad any of his Votaries to dig into the Bowels of these Hills, or convert the Treafures they contained to any Ufe, under Pain of Starving. At the End of the Valley stood The Temple of Avarice, made after the Manner of a Fortification, and furrounded with a Thousand tripple-headed Dogs, that were placed there to keep off Beggars. At our Approach they all fell a Barking, and would have very much terrified us, had not an old Woman who had called her felf by the forged Name of Competency offered her felf for our Guide. She carried under her Garment la Golden Bow which the no fooner held up in her Hand, but the Dogs lay down, and the Gates flew open for our Reception. We were led through an Hundred Iron Doors, before we entered the Temple. At the upper End of it fat the God of Avarice, with a long filthy Beard, and a meagre ftarved Counte

nance, enclosed with Heaps of Ingots and Pyramids of Money, but half naked and fhivering with Cold. On his Right Hand was a Fiend called Rapine, and on his Left a parti cular Favourite to whom he had given the Title of Parfimony. The First was his Colle &tor, and the other his Cashier.

There were feveral long Tables placed on each Side of the Temple, with refpective Of ficers attending behind them. Some of the fe I enquired into. At the first Table was kept the Office of Corruption. Seeing a Solicitor extremely bufy, and whispering every Body that paffed by, I kept my Eye upon him very attentively, and faw him often going up to a Perfon that had a Pen in his Hand, with a Multiplication Table and an Almanack before him, which as I afterwards heard, was all the Learning he was Master of. The Solicitor would often apply himself to his Ear, and at the fame Time convey Money into his Hand, for which the other would give him out a Piece of Paper or Parchment, figned and fealed in Form. The Name of this dextrous and fuccessful Solicitor was Bribery. At the next Table was the Office of Extortion. Behind it fate a Person in a BobWig, counting over a great Sum of Money. He gave out little Purfes to feveral, who after a fhort Tour, brought him, in Return, Sacks full of the fame Kind of Coin. I faw at the Tame Time/a Perfon called Fraud, who fate behind a Counter with false Scales, light -oval

Weights,