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 dition of a line of gods that formerly dwelt in Greece is no dream of fancy, though the poets have now mixed o much fable and falehood with it, that it is more difficult to part one from the other than to purify ilver calcined by antimony: nevertheles, the ilver is contained in the coriæ, and may be found by the adept. The lineage of gods is only a pecies of ethereal pirits, that inhabit the upper regions of the atmophere, or the top of mount Olympus. In the chain of beings they are the link next above man, and connect him with the gods. Formerly they lived with men in confidential and viible intercoure; they mixed with the decendants of Adam; and the offspring has continued in this lower world to the preent hour. The amorous wan who urpried the unguarded Leda in a lonely bath under the aumed character of the imaginary thunderer, was only one of thee genii. He endowed his poterity Rh