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FICTIONS CONCERNING DORADO 



was : however, for the fake of making him a confide- 

 rable prince, in modern times fome have given him 

 the nation of the Onaguas for his fubjects. This fable 

 was univerfally believed, and in Rome particularly 

 there is a chart of New-Granada, on which, to the 

 fouth of the Caribbean territories, there ftands the 

 following in Spanifh : El Dor ado 9 gente del Inga Ena^ 

 guas. 



So much pains have been taken to demonflrate the 

 actual exiftence of this country. In the mean time, 

 except Candide, no man has hitherto been fo happy as 

 to fee it : and even he could not profit by the treafures 

 he acquired therein ; lince his little creator intends tQ 

 demonftrate throughout the whole of his hiflory, in 

 defiance of the great Creator, that nothing in- thi§ 

 world can, or fhould, be profperous. 



THE TWIN-BROTHERS OF MEZZORANIA, 



' A MEZZO RANI AN TALE. 



Amidst the extenlive wilds of Africa lies a ter^ 

 ritory, the inhabitants whereof are as numerous and 

 even as civilized as the Chinefe. They are called the 

 Mezzoranians. 



Two twin-brothers of this country, which is frill fo 

 little known to our geographers, were both enamoured 



of 



