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 the otherwie unattainable privilege of unfading youth and beauty.

‘If you do not grudge to undertake o long a journey, and to lie in ambuh beide one of thee wonder-working prings, in order to make that declaration of love, which the beautiful Zoe will hardly hear from you in Naxos, I will tell you where to eek them. The firt lies in Abyinia, in the depth of Africa, and is in fact the long-ought fountain of the Nile. The econd is a bottomles pool, at the foot of Mount Ararat, in Aia, which received and wallowed up the waters of Noah’s flood. The third prings in Europe, in the empire of Germany, where the roots of the Sudetes hoot out wetward towards the plain country. Its waters are collected in a pool ituated in a delightful valley, named by the inhabitants of the country the Swansfield. This pool is mot frequently viited by Zoe, for it is nearet home. You will not find any