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immense labour in tropical forests and transported at im- 

 mense cost to our shores? Look again at the dingy 

 madder, munjeet, and yellow-berries, and who could 

 imagine that the bright charming colours produced to 

 please the eye of taste are drawn from such sources ? Once 

 more, look at the rock-weed, without an appearance of 

 colour beyond a dirty drab tint, yielding nevertheless a 

 purple fit for the adornment of princes. How true it is 

 that industry works its own reward, and that the Creator 

 has given to man an inexhaustible treasury from which he 

 may draw all that his wants and luxuries require ; exacting 

 only in return — labour — as the penalty of the first trans- 

 gression. 



