Book vi

. Letter xvi. contains the description of the eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 79, as witnessed by Pliny the Elder.

[748-2] This comes to inform you that I am in a perfect state of health, hoping you are in the same. Ay, that 's the old beginning.--COLMAN: _The Heir at Law, act iii. sc. 2._

[748-3] See Goldsmith, page 402.

[748-4] "There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it."--CERVANTES: _Don Quixote,