NORTHERN OCEAN. 
hem to inhabit the different elements of earth, 
fea, and air, according to their feveral qualities. 
To one or other of thofe fairies they ufually at- 
tribute any change in their circumflances, either 
for the better or worfe ; and as they are led into 
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this way of thinking entirely by the art of the 
conjurors, there is no fuch thing as any general 
mode of belief; for thofe jugglers differ fo much 
from each other in their accounts of thefe beings, 
that thofe who believe any thing they fay, have 
little to do but change their opinions according 
to the will and caprice of the conjuror, who is al- 
moft daily relating fome new whim, or extraor- 
dinary event, which, he fays, has been revealed 
‘to him in adream, or by fome of his favourite 
fairies, when ona hunting excurfion. 
Some 
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