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the fide of the rivers. The forefls are lofty, and 

 filled with fruit-trees of all kinds. As they were 

 frequently in want of provifions, they employed 

 me in feeking it for them, in the fields and in the 

 woods. I found, in the meadows, cloves of garlic, 

 the roots of the daucus, and of the drop-wort, I 

 fometimes returned, loaded with myrtle-berries, 

 beech-mad, plumbs, pears, and apples, which I 

 had gathered in the foreft. They drefled thefe 

 fruits, the greater part of which cannot be eaten 

 raw, on account of their harflinefs. But they have 

 trees there, which produce fruit of an exquifite 

 flavour. I have often admired the apple-trees,, 

 loaded with fruits of a colour fo brilliant, that they 

 might have been miftaken for the moft beautiful 

 flowers. 



This is what they related, refpeding the origin 

 of thofe apple-trees, which grow there in fuch 

 abundance, and of the greateft beauty. They tell 

 you, that the beautiful Thelis, whom they call 

 Friga, jealous of this circumftance, that, at her 

 nuptials, Venus, whom they denominate Siofne, had 

 carried away the apple, which was the prize of 

 beauty, without putting it in her power to conteft it 

 with the three Goddefl'es, refolved to avenge herfelf. 



Accordingl}'', one day that Fenus had defcended 

 on this part of the Gallic fliore, in quefl of pearls 



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