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116 ; or that they do not flourish unassisted, beneath the parental influence of a nearer sun.

But these Allestonian speculations were not confined to the invention of such little stories. Their author had made a very small progress in the difficult task of devising a language, and compiling a dictionary, for his invisible subjects. The inflections of his declinable nouns were determined by the model of the Latin; but their root was the product of his own whim, and their rhythm tuned to his own ear. As a specimen of this bold attempt, are subjoined,

SOME ALLESTONIAN CHRISTIAN NAMES OF WOMEN.

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 * Aria, (delight) Aria, æ.
 * Abrily, (beautiful) Abrila, æ.