Produced by David Edwards, Ross Cooling and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) A SEASON AT HARROGATE; IN A SERIES OF POETICAL EPISTLES, FROM _Benjamin Blunderhead, Esquire, to his Mother_, IN DERBYSHIRE: With useful and copious NOTES, descriptive of the Objects most worthy of Attention in the Vicinity of Harrogate. * * * * * Laugh where we must, be candid where we can. Pope. * * * * * Knaresbrough: _PRINTED BY G. WILSON,_ AND SOLD BY R. WILSON, KNARESBROUGH, AND HARROGATE; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, London; Robinson, Heaton, I. & I. Nicholls, and Baines, Leeds; Wolstenholme, and Todd, York; Hunsley and Thomas, Doncaster; Langdale, Rippon; Edwards, Halifax; Miss Gales, Sheffield; and Wright, Liverpool. 1812. Entered at Stationers' Hall. ADVERTISEMENT. That admirable production of Mr. Anstey's the "New Bath Guide," may justly be considered the parent of a numerous progeny of watering place bagatelles, each of which has some resemblance to its father, though not one of them can boast the wit, humour, or poetical talent which so eminently distinguishes those celebrated letters. The youngest of this race is now presented to the Public with that timidity which arises from conscious imperfection, devoid of the fear which rivalry has endeavoured to excite, and persecution may seek to perpetuate. Neither nurtured by patronage nor dandled by fashion, neither supported by rank nor allied to literary honours, this child of obscurity is cast on the world in a helpless, yet not hopeless state, for the good man's smile has illumed its cradle, and it possesses that confidence derived from purity of intention, and that humility which disarms malice, and draws the sting of criticism. B. HOFLAND. _High Harrogate_, _December 1, 1811._ LETTER I. To Mrs. Blunderhead, _Low Harrogate, July 20th_.