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 "enjoy a companion I know his goodness to provide one for me, without my seeking out of the way to find one."

But as he was going on his way he ſerved Miranda, a young virgin, who was walking the same road, and began to be devoured with her company, but thought adviſeable to be very deliberate. He ſerved whether the cloſely attended right way: ſo he perceived her taking something out of her boſom, diligently pause for a while, then put it into her boſom and purſue the ſtraight path. When he went up to her, and enquired where she was going: ſhe told him, to Zion. Heededed her what ſhe had been peruſing ſhewed him, it was the Map of the which ſhe took along with her for her. He then began to enquire who ſhe was whence ſhe came ſhe told him ſhe was birth a Chaldean by education and classifation a Babylonian, but was now ſeeking a better country He aſked what expect or encouragement ſhe had in taking journey; ſhe told me, ſhe had the Word to make her an inhabitant Royal Palace when ſhe arrived at the Bethel, and to grant her ſufficient day and ſuſtenance all the way thither. He