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wild-boars, abound, at that feafon, in the forefts, 

 and approach their habitations. They killed thefc 

 in prodigious quantities, 



I was not lefs furprized, when I beheld the re- 

 turn of Spring, which difplayed, in thofe defolate 

 regions, a magnificence which I had never feen be- 

 fore, even on the banks of the Nile : the bramble, 

 the rafpberry, the fweet-briar, the ftrawberry, the 

 primrofe, the violet, and a great many other flow- 

 ers, unknown in Egypt, adorned the verdant bor- 

 ders of the forefts. Some, fuch as the honey-fuckle, 

 entwined themfelves round the trunks of the oaks, 

 and fufpended from the boughs their perfumed 

 garlands. The fliores, the rocks, the woods, and 

 the mountains, were all clothed in a pomp, at once 

 magnificent and wild. A fpedlacle fo affeding, 

 redoubled my melancholy : " Happy," faid I to 

 myfelf, " if I could perceive among fo many 

 " plants, a fingle one of thofe which I brought 

 ** with mc from Egypt 1 Were it only the humble 

 *' flax, it would recal the memory of my 

 *' Country, during my whole life-time ; in dying, 

 ** I would feleâ: it for the place of my grave : 

 *' it would, one day, tell Cephas where the bones 

 *' of his friend repofe, and inform the Gauls of the 

 ^* name and of the travels of Amajts'* 



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