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THE TRAVELS OF
diſſolution, the parting ſoul ſtruggling to leave its earthly priſon, and panting for the joys of immortality, changes, at bright intervals, the terrors of the grim Monarch into the ſmiles of a Cherub, who invites it to a happier region.
When a perſon dies among them, the neighbours of the ſame religious principles bring the family of the deceaſed to their houſes, and uſe every means to comfort them in their affliction. The goſpel is ſtretched on the deathbed, which is covered with white muſlin, and, adorned with flowers: wax tapers are lit about it, and the room hung round with white cotton. Numbers aſſemble together to pray for the
departed
