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upon it, Ichabod.—As they travelled, they

would frequently sit down in the shade,

divert themselves with trifles, and often

turn aside, which made their progress very

small; and this indolence prevailed more

and more, until they came to a low valley

by the brink of the river Euphrates, where

they turned aside and fell asleep; and while

they slept, there arose a swell in the river,

and the flood swept them both away.

As for the third, whose name was Eu-

phemius, when he heard the admonitions,

they made deep impressions upon his

mind, and filled him with awful apprehen-

sions ; he was convinced of the pernicious

consequences which would attend such

company, and appeared solicitous to avoid

them ; but how it was, I have now forgot,

whether, before these considerations, he had

contracted a correspondence, or whether

afterwards, by dalliance and giving latitude

to his fancy, he forgot himself, and was

entangled with a daughter of the Chaldees

which, betwixt the instructions he had re-

ceived, and his own misguarded affections,

caused some strugglings of his mind: for

the person was of a complaisant disposition,

nor seemed at all reluctant to the things he

had in view. Yet he plainly perceived, she

had no taste to them, and that her innate

disposition was more to Babylon than Ca-

naan ; she had never been convinced of the