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pyrus. When they afterwards heard the recital of 

 our difcoveries ; when they faw the prodigies ef- 

 fecfted by the mechanical powers, which move the 

 heavieft bodies by means of fmall levers, and thofe 

 of Geometry, which can meaftire diftances the mod 

 inacceffible, they became perfectly tranfported. 

 The wonders of chemiftry and of magic, and the 

 various phenomena of phyfics hurried them from 

 rapture to rapture. But wlien we predi6ted to 

 them an eclipfe of the Moon, which, prior to our 

 arrival, they confidered as an accidental failure of 

 that planet, and when they faw, at the very mo- 

 ment which we had indicated, the orb of night 

 become dark in the midft of a ferene iky, they 

 fell at our feet, faying: " Afîuredly, ye are Godsl" 



Omji, that young Druid who had difcovered fo 

 much fenfibility to my affligions, attended all our 

 leffons of inftru(flion. *' From your intelligence,'* 

 faid he to us, " and from your beneficence, I am 

 " tempted to believe you fome of the fuperior 

 *' Gods ; but from the ills which you have endur- 

 ** ed, I perceive that you are only men like our- 

 " felves. You muft, undoubtedly, have contrived 

 " the means of climbing up into Heaven ; or the 

 '' inhabitants of the celeftial regions muft have de- 

 " fcended into highly favoured Egypt, to comniu- 

 " nicatc to you fo many benefits, and fo much il- 

 *' lumination. Your Arts and Sciences furpafs 



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