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 ber-Nip, the mountain pirit, himelf. She owned that he had practied the rites of hopitality in a very generous manner; forgave him his frolic repecting the Carlbad company; and from this time forward incerely believed in the exitence of pirits, though, to avoid the arrows of the wits, he was cautious how he made a public declaration of her faith.

Since his manifetation to the Countes Cecilia, nothing further has been heard of him. He returned to his ubterraneous tates; and as the great earthquake that detroyed Libon and Guatimala, oon afterwards happened, and has ince been continually advancing nearer and nearer, o as lately to threaten the pillars of the Giant-mountains themelves, the pirits of the deep have found o much work below ground, in damming the torrents of lava, that they have never had leiure to appear on the urface

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