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78 new-invented bell; and another was on the point of discovering the longitude.

Being thus rejected wheresoever I applied myself, for information, I began to imagine it best to resist from enquiry, and try what my own observation would discover: but seeing a young man, gay and thoughtless, I resolved upon one more experiment, and was informed that I was in the garden of, the daughter of , and that all those whom I saw thus tumultuously bustling round me, were incited by the promises of , and hastening to seize the gifts which she held in her hand.

I turned my sight upward, and saw a goddess in the bloom of youth sitting on a throne: around her lay all the gifts of fortune, and all the blessings of life were spread abroad to view; she had a perpetual gaiety of aspect, and every one imagined that her smile, which was impartial and general, was directed to himself, and triumphed in his own superiority to others, who had conceived the same confidence from the same mistake.

I then mounted an eminence, from which I had a more extensive view of the whole place, and could with less perplexity consider the different conduct of the crowds that filled it. From this station I observed, that the entrance into the garden of was by two gates, one of which was kept by, and the other by. was surly and scrupulous, and seldom turned the key without many interrogatories and long hesitation; but was a kind and gentle portress, she held her gate wide open, and welcomed all equally to the district under her superintendency; so that the passage was crowded by all those who either feared