Inkle. My heels! Here's pretty doctrine! Do you think I travel merely for motion? What, would you have a man of business come abroad, scamper extravagantly here and there and every where, then return home, and have nothing to tell, but that he has been here and there and every where? 'Sdeath, sir, would you have me travel like a lord?
Med. No, the Lord forbid!
Inkle. Travelling, uncle, was always intended for improvement; and improvement is an advantage; and advantage is profit, and profit is gain. Which in the travelling translation of a trader, means, that you should gain every advantage of improving your profit. I have been comparing the land, here, with that of our own country.
Med. And you find it like a good deal of the land of our own country——cursedly encumbered with black legs, I take it.
Inkle. And calculating how much it might be made to produce by the acre.
Med. You were?
Inkle. Yes; I was proceeding algebraically upon the subject.
Med. Indeed!
Inkle. And just about extracting the square root.