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 grims journeying to the fountain of beauty, and impelled with no les devotion than the Turkih caravan, when it repairs to the prophet’s grave at Mecca. The daughters of the town would likewie go forth with pitchers on their houlders to draw the precious water, and as little mis uch an opportunity of carrying on the trade of matrimony, as the daughters of Nahor in days of yore. But neither are the kirts of every cloud gilded by the un; nor is every flower that drinks the refrehing dew of the morning arrayed in plendid apparel, nor does every pearl, after being clouded with weat, regain its firt water, when oaked in lemon-juice—but on the contrary, the action of the rays of the fertilizing dew, and the acid, till remaining the ame, a different effect is produced by the intruion of certain circumtances; o, without diparagement to its overeign virtue, neither would the Zwikow pring faten the flower of youth and beauty upon every