PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 6t 



tunity of doing good. She it was who prepared, 

 beforehand, the medicines neceflary to the fick, 

 and who prefented them with a grace ineffable. 



After thofe vifits of humanity, they fometimes 

 extended their walk, by the valley of the long 

 mountain, as far as my habitation, where I expefted 

 them to dinner, on the banks of the little river, 

 which flows in my neighbourhood. I provided 

 myfelf, for fuch occafions, with fome bottles of old 

 wine, in order to enliven the gaiety of our Indian 

 repafts, by thofe pleafant and cordial produdiions 

 of Europe. At other times, we had our rendez- 

 vous on tke fliore of the Sea, at the mouth of fome 

 other fmall rivers, which, in this part of thé 

 World, can hardly be called any thing more than 

 a larger kind of brook. Thither we carried, from 

 the plantation, various kinds of vegetable provifion, 

 which we added to the abundant fuppHes furnilhed 

 by the Ocean. We fiflied along the fhore for ca- 

 bots, polypnfes, lobfters, roaches, flirimps, crabs, 

 urchins, oyfters, and fhell-filb of every kind. Si- 

 tuations the mod terrible frequently procured us 

 pleafures the mod tranquilizing. Sometimes, 

 feated on a rock, under the Ihade of a velvet-tree, 

 we contemplated the billows, from the main, rolling 

 on, and breaking under our feet, with a tremen- 

 dous roar. Paul, who, befide his other qualities, 

 could fwim like a fifli, now and then advanced 



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