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some of the most spiteful of her sisterhood was alleged not to 
have sprung from any indisposition of her own, but from the par¬ 
ticular contour of her countenance, which, was perhaps the most 
hideous, that could be formed of the customary appendages of the 
human face, even if ingenuity had been exhausted in placing 
them in the most grotesque position, which the most exuberant 
imagination could devise. At her birth, she had the name of 
1Vakkoowoke bestowed upon her, the interpretation of which is 
“ squint she does and therefore as calumny is the loudest, 
where the beauty of the female is the greatest, according to that 
ratio, detraction never ought to have sullied with its pestiferous 
breath the immaculate character of Nakkoowoke. Let it not, how¬ 
ever, be supposed that the absence of personal beauty implies 
the absence of moral worth ; on the contrary, according to Euro¬ 
pean experience, we frequently find, that nature, in order to 
make some amends for her unnatural freak, in withholding from a 
female every feature that has the slightest claim to beauty, has 
bestowed upon her moral and intellectual character, every noble 
property and virtue, which, in their general practice, have a ten¬ 
dency to exalt and adorn a human being. A poet of high renown 
has said, 
“ That beauty and virtue are the same, 
And goodness dwells with both.'-* 
It may have been so in the golden age, or in the fields of 
Arcadia, or perhaps it may be so in Heaven, but this we know, 
that if the poet intended his sentiments to apply to the world 
as it is now constituted, or has been constituted since the times 
of Helen of Troy, or of Messalina of Rome, he may be consider¬ 
ed as having spoken one of the greatest falsehoods, which ever 
emerged from the pericranium of a poet. It would be most 
unjust and illiberal to say that beauty and virtue are not to be 
found as co-existing in the same person, but our hair has not 
grow r n grey, without having arrived at the experience that 
