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joyment it is to receive in its last and final state 

 of perfection ; but the chrysalis of the brush- 

 footed butterflies, whose caterpillars are stinging, 

 is suspended with the head downward to the 

 earth, thus pointing to the world, as the only 

 habitation where its innumerable types of evil are 

 permitted to reside ; or to that dark and bottom- 

 less region, where punishment awaits the wicked 

 at their last great change."* 



* Swainson, Geogr. and Class. Auim., p. 248. London, 1835. 



