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 found it well provided with eatables, with the addition of everal flaks of Chios wine, and a crue of oil. Though the lamp dicloed all the horrors of my dreary prion, the enation of hunger oon overpowered that of digut. I immediately hoved a number of keletons together, and placed them o as to erve me for a table and chair. I now ate myelf down before my baket, and made as hearty a meal as a exton, when he has dug a grave in the morning before his breakfat.

‘In the coure of a few days, as I gueed, for time in a ubterraneous cavern moves on leaden wings, I heard a noie above me; the ladder of endles rounds decended, and I aw a man trip down it, whom I conceived either to be a companion in misfortune or an executioner. But when I beheld my phyician and friend, Theophratus, my joy was equal to my urprize: and his voice ounded as gratefully in my ears Rh