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virtue refides ; in confoling poverty difcontented 

 with it's lot ; in encouraging, in youthful lovers, 

 a lading flame, a relilh for the bleffings of Nature, 

 ia. love of labour, and a dread of riches. 



The voice of the people, which is filent refpe^l- 

 ing the monuments reared to the glory of Kings, 

 has beftowed on feveral parts of this ifland, names, 

 which will eternalize the lofs of Virginia. You may 

 fee, near the Tile of Amber, in the middle of the 

 Ihelves, a place called. The Saint-Gerand's 

 Pass, from the name of the veflel which perifhed 

 there, in returning from Europe, The extremity 

 of that long point of land, which you fee about 

 three leagues from hence, half-covered with the 

 waves of the Sea, which the Saint-Gerand could 

 not double, the evening of the hurricane, in order 

 to make the harbour, is named Cape-Misfor- 

 TUNE ; there, juft before you, at the bottom of 

 this valley, is Tomb-Bay, where the body of 

 Firginia was found, buried in the fand, as if the fea 

 had intended to bear her back to her family, and 

 to render the lad duties to her modefty, upon the 

 fame fhores which fhe had honoured with her in- 

 nocence. 



Young people fo tenderly united ! Unfortunate 

 mothers ! Dearly beloved family ! Thefe woods 

 which gave you Qiade, thefe fountains, which 



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