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 with the power of taking the borrowed form of their progenitor, under certain circumtances and for certain purpoes. In the three quarters of the globe there arie from the boom of the earth three fountains, ued by the genii of the air as baths, and endowed with the power of perpetuating the youthful charms of the fair inhabitants of the upper ky, whom we know under the name of fairies, and our ancetors worhipped as goddees. Thee prings exert the ame power on all the mortal beauties, who date their decent from the interpoition of any genius or fairy, provided they bathe once every year, at the eaon of the ummer oltice. But as the waters rie in far ditant climes, and only that branch of the fairy noblee which were hatched from mother Leda’s egg has been furnihed with wings, few can reap the benefit of their hereditary privilege, the greater part fade away like mortal