al put on thoſe who were ſuſpected to have been guilty of falſifying their Vow of Charity.
Over a Place called the How of Duglas, which is the Extent of the Earl of Derby's Dominion on the Sea, there is a Rock vaſtly high and ſteep, about the Middle of which is a Hollow not very different from the Faſhion of an Elbow-Chair, and near the Top, another much like the former. Whether theſe are made by Art or Nature, I cannot pretend to determine, nor did I ever hear: but on the ſlighteſt Accuſation, the poor Nun was brought to the Foot of this Rock, when the Sea was out, and obliged to climb to the firſt Chair, where ſhe ſat till the Tide had twice ebbed and flowed. Thoſe who had given a greater Cauſe for Suſpicion, went up to the ſecond Chair, and ſat the ſame ſpace of Time. Thoſe who endured this Trial, and deſcended unhurt, were cleared of the Aſperſion thrown upon them. But in my Opinion, the Number of the Fortunate could not be great, for beſides the Danger of climbing the ragged and ſteep Rock, (which now very few Men can do above thirty or forty
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