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 year to the ources of the Nile, without ever accompanying us herelf; for my father, from jealouy, kept her in cloe confinement till his death: and, as he could no longer renovate her youth and beauty in the fairy bath, he lot her bloom, faded away, and grew old. She now paes her widowhood in melancholy olitude—for when youth and beauty are once flown, life has little enjoyment left for our ex. We lived under the care of our mother, far from the court of my uncle, who ucceeded my father in the government of the Cyclades; nor did he ever part from us, except for the hort time of our annual viit to the fairy prings. My elder iters once ventured on a flight towards the north; the levity of youth made them diregard the warning of their mother: they uppoed that they hould be les oppreed by a ultry climate in thee regions than in the deerts bordering on Egypt. We met with no misfortune in this ex-