Iî6 STUDIES OF NATURE* 



** likewife, for this very reafon, called the widow's 

 ** flower. It flourifhes bed in places rugged, and 

 *' agitated by the winds." She requefted him to 

 fow it on the rock, where flie had talked with him, 

 by night, for the kft time, and to give that rock, 

 for her fake, the name of Rock-Farewel. 



She had inclofed thefe feeds, in a little purfe, 

 the embroidery of which was very fimple, but 

 which appeared ineftimable to Paul, when he per- 

 ceived a P and a V interwoven in it, and formed 

 of hair, which he knew, by it's beauty, to be that 

 of rirginia. 



The letter of this fenfible and virtuous young 

 lady, drew tears from the whole family. Her mo- 

 ther replied, in the name of the whole fociety, de- 

 firing her either to remain, or return, as (lie thought 

 beft, but afluring her, that they had all loft the 

 greatcft portion of their happinefs fince her depar- 

 ture, and that, for herfelf in particular, flie was 

 quite inconfolable. 



Paul wrote her a very long letter, in which, he 

 affured her, that he would render the garden wor- 

 thy to receive her ; and, in like manner as flîe had 

 interwoven their names in her purfe, fo would he 

 mingle tlie plants of Europe with thofe of Africa. 

 He fent her fome of the fruit of the cocoa-trees of 



her 



