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THE TRAVELS OF

with the gayeeſt flowers diffuſing their fragrance on the bottom of the air and the very bowels of the earth enriched with ineſtimable mines of gold and diamonds.

Poſſeſſed of all that is enviable in life, We are ſtill more happy in the exerciſe of benevolence and good-will to each other, devoid of every ſpecies of fraud or low cunning. In our convivial enjoyments, we are never without our neighbours; as it is uſual for an individual, when he gives an entertainment, to invite all thoſe of his own Profeſſion to partake of it. That profligacy of manners too conſpicuous in other parts of the world, meets here with public indignation;

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