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126 diolution, the parting oul truggling to leave its earthly prion, and panting for the joys of immortality, changes, at bright intervals, the terrors of the grim Monarch into the miles of a Cherub, who invites it to a happier region.

When a peron dies among them, the neighbours of the ame religious principles bring the family of the deceaed to their houes, and ue every means to comfort them in their affliction. The gopel is tretched on the deathbed, which is covered with white mulin, and, adorned with flowers: wax tapers are lit about it, and the room hung round with white cotton. Numbers aemble together to pray for the departed