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from a different motive may equally benefit the object; but the 

 heart which melts at another's woe, is actuated by very superior 

 considerations to those which produce the same effect from the 

 church-warden, or overseer of a work-house. Love is" the essence 

 of that divine religion, it pervades the whole system of the gospel. 

 And from that pure principle in the Christian's heart, flow all the 

 delightful charities of life. 



" Hail! sacred source of sympathy divine, 

 " Each social pulse, each social fibre thine ! 

 " Hail, symbols of the God, to whom we owe 

 " The nerves that vibrate, and the hearts that glow ■ 

 " Love's tender tumult, friendship s holy fires, 

 " And all which beauty, all which worth inspires ; 

 " The joy that lights the hope-illumin'd eye, 

 " The bliss supreme that melts in pity's sigh ; 

 " Affection's bloom, quick rushing to the face, 

 " The choice acknowledg'd, and the warm embrace ! 



" Blest myriads still there are, 

 " Whom Sympathy adopts with fondest care ; 

 " Unbrib'd by wealth, by fortune undismay'd, 

 ' ' Friends in the sun-shine, partners in the shade ; 

 ' ' In whose warm hearts the soft sensations roll, 

 " The same in India, Albion, or the Pole !" Pratt. 



In Ahmcdabad, as in most other large cities of India, are 

 splendid remains of those noble structures, for the accommoda- 

 tion of travellers, erected by the Mogul monarchs. They were not 

 always in towns, but frequently in deserts, and places little fre- 

 quented, except by travelling merchants and religious pilgrims, 

 whose profession led them from one place to another, through 

 every variety of country. When benighted in a dreary solitude, 



