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houses, bringing provisions, and even 

 from the depths of the countn.", laden 

 with presents. One can onl\- assume 

 that these persons must be indispensable 

 to the race, to which they render essen- 

 tial ser\ice, although our means of 

 investigation have not yet enabled us to 

 discover what the precise nature of this 

 ser\-ice may be. There are others, again, 

 who are incessantly engaged in the most 

 wearisome labour, v;hether it be in great 

 sheds full of wheels that forever turn 

 round and round, or close b}' the ship- 

 ping, or in obscure hovels, or on small 

 plots of earth that from sunrise to sunset 

 they are constantl}' delving and digging. 

 We are led to believe that this labour 

 must be an oitence, and punishable. For 

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