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growing ten or twelve feet high. Our path 

 was good. Although pleafantly fhad d at 

 each fide, it was not fo narrow as to confine 

 us to the ufual Indian file. It more refembled 

 the open ridings which embellifh the woods of 

 England. The fcene was new. Every object 

 created a lively intereft. Expectation was 

 ardent ; and curiofity on the point of being 

 gratified. I cannot tell you the fenfations we 

 experienced during this walk of nearly a mile. 

 The gnomes and fylphs of ethereal regions 

 could not have journied with lefs fatigue. All 

 was mind. The bufy foul feemed releafed 

 from its fluggifti clay ; and the heavy clog of 

 body was no longer an incumbrance We were 

 about to contemplate what we might never 

 behold again — a novelty peculiarly exquifite, 

 and of more than common intereft, for . . . . ♦ 

 it attached to our fpecies ! All that concerns 

 the habits and comfort of man, I always re- 

 gard with high veneration. In whatever re- 

 lates to our nature, I feel a glowing fympathy; 

 and I affectionate the whole human race in 

 every ftate and ftation. In what we differ 

 and in what referable each other, are queftions 

 of more than ordinary curiofity — queftions 

 that ftrike upon my mind with uncommon 



