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which is really a standing miracle of the most 

 extraordinary and convincing nature." 



I am ashamed, dear mamma, of the slight 

 sketch I have given of what my uncle said 

 at great length in answer to Wentworth ; but, 

 though I have done him very little justice, it 

 has ail made a deep impression on my mind, 

 and I am going to read a book he has lent me 

 on the comparison of the prophecies with profane 

 history. 



8th. At last I have escaped from confine- 

 ment, and am enjoying the delight of fresh air. 

 Everything looks gay ; the sweet flowers, the 

 bright green shrubs, the butterflies flitting about 

 in the sun-beams, and, above all, the unceasing 

 singing of the birds. Oh, mamma, how can you 

 bear to live where you hear so few warbling 

 birds ? 



The change that one short week has produced 

 in my garden is quite magical ; it is really a 

 sheet of flowers ; and I found there a new proof 

 of the goodnature of my cousins, for they had 

 pulled up every weed that disfigured it while I 

 was confined to the house. 



In my aunt's garden there is a tree of the 

 Yulan Magnolia just opening its large tulip- 

 shaped blossoms, which are so fragrant, and of 

 so pure a white. It is nearly twenty feet high, 



