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" nize over my People. Every profligate in the 

 ** Country, on whom they can lay their hands, 

 ** they take care to wheedle over, in order to 

 " ftrengthen their party. They fometimes render 

 *' themfelves formidable even to myfelf. But 

 " the Druids are ftill much more fo. No one 

 *' dares to do any thing here without their confent. 

 *' Which way fhall I go to work to enfeeble thofe 

 " two powers ? 1 imagined that, by increafing the 

 *^ influence of the larles, I fliould raife a bulwark 

 '* to oppofe that of the Druids. But the contrary 

 ** has taken place, The power of the Druids is in- 

 " creafed. It appears as if there were an under- 

 ** (landing between them, for the purpofe of ex- 

 " tending their oppreflion over the People, nay, 

 " even over my guefts. O flranger," faid he to 

 me, '* you have had but too much experience of 

 " this!" Then, turning to Cephas^ "O my friend,'* 

 added he, *' you who, in the courfe of your travels, 

 " have acquired the knowledge neceflary to the 

 ** government of Mankind, give fome inflrudion, 

 '* on this fubjeét, to a King, who never was be- 

 *' yond the limits of his own Country. Oh ! how 

 " fenfible I am of the benefit which Kings might 

 " derive from travelling." 



" I will unfold to you, O King," replied Cephas^ 



" fome part of the Policy and Philofophy of 



*' Egypt. One of the fundamental Laws of Na- 



*' ture is, that every thing mud be governed by 



c c 4 " contraries. 



