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 tock of a nymph that bathes in it; both are indeed harder to gain in the viâ humidâ of a water bath, than to be aped in the viâ iccâ of the bruh and rouge box.

There is, beides, this particular to be taken into the account, that the Zwikow beauty-bath exerts its wonderful virtue on thoe ladies who are founders kin, though but in the thouandth degree, to the race of the fairies. Let not this, however, be undertood o as to deter any damel from a trial of the remedy or preervative; for who can be ure that he decends in an unditurbed ucceion, both on the father’s and mother’s ide, from the terretrial loins of grandam Eve; that not a ingle fairy has ever intervened in the long eries of her forgotten grandmothers, to infue a drop of ethereal blood into her veins? Poibly the retles pirit of human cience may dicover a profile peculiar to the fairy race, as it has already hrewdly upected a line that marks the decendants of kings,