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lies with which his head had been ftufied, and 
made it a point not to interrupt him. The 
idea of opening his eyes and deftroying hopes 
which, mad and chimerical as they were, ren- 
dered him happy, was abfolutely painful to me. 
To diffipate his illufion, and tell him the truth, 
was to render him miferable : yet was ic ne- 
ceffary to be done, I ordered, therefore, all the 
fpecimens of minerals, all the ftones and co- 
loured cryftals, which I and my people had 
coJIefted, to be placed before him; and fliow- 
ing him this fuppofed wealth, the nature and 
value of which he might himfelf examine and 
appreciate, This," faid 1 to him, " is what 
you will find." 
The exhibition was a thunderftroke to this; 
deluded and happy couple. They ran their 
eyes over the different fubftances, and then 
looked at each other with an air of dejedion 
and amazement which it is eafier to imagine 
than defcribe. Yet, notwithftanding this mode 
of convincing them, they ftill appeared at in- 
tervals perplexed and undecided in their minds, 
Becaufe I did not Ihow them money ready 
coined, it did not follow that nothing to coin 
it with was to be found in the country. The 
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