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virtue. My obfervation excited a blufh in her 

 cheek. 



Thefe happy families extended their benevolent 

 difpofitions to all that furrounded them. They 

 bcftovved the moft tender appellations on objeéls 

 apparently the moft indifferent. To an enclofure 

 of orange-trees, and bananas, planted in form of a 

 circle, round a portion of mofly ground, in the 

 middle of which Paid and Virginia fometimes ufed 

 to dance, they gave the name of, The Concord. 

 An ancient tree, under the fliade of which Ma- 

 dame de la Tour and Margaret related, to each 

 other, their misfortunes, was called. The Tears 

 WIPED AWAY. They gave the names of Brit- 

 tany and Normandy to fmall fpots of ground, 

 where they had planted corn, ftrawberries,and peafe. 

 Domingo and Mary, wifliing, after the example of 

 their miftreffes, to call to remembrance the places 

 of their birth in Africa, denominated two pieces 

 of ground, where that grafs grew of which they 

 made- bafkets, and where they had planted a great 

 gourd, Angola and Foullepointe, Thus, by 

 thefe produ6tions of their own climates, thefe ex- 

 iled families cheriQied fond ideas of their native 

 country, and foothed their forrows in a foreign 

 land. Alas ! I have feen the trees, the fountains, 

 the rocks, of this fpot, now fo changed, animated 

 by a thoufand charming appellations j but in 



their 



