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many of the respectable inhabitants of the city. On 

 one of these visits, they found the house shut up, and 

 the Moorish females in great grief and consternation. 

 Some of the beautiful lampyris italica had found in- 

 gress into the house, and these brilliant guests were 

 supposed to be no other than the troubled spirits of 

 their relations. We remember one evening, on coming 

 from Arcqua (celebrated for the tomb and former re- 

 sidence of Petrarch) to Padua, that all the hedges and 

 shrubs were illuminated with myriads of these " dia- 

 monds of the night:" the effect was very beautiful. 



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