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congenial as it is to the gentle influence of the clime, and to the better feelings of the heart, bids fair to ſurvive thoſe foreign ſchemes of ſuperſtition, that tremble on the tranſient efferveſcence of that baleful enthuſiaſm to which they owe their birth. Diſguſted with continual ſcenes of ſlaughter and deſolation, pierced by the inceffant ſhrieks of ſuffering innocence, and ſhocked by the ſhouts of perſecuting brutality, the humane mind averts abhorrent, from the view, and turning her

eyes