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THE TRAVELS OF
ſeven feet high, cbvered on the top with the fineſt ſnow-white muſlin, and decorated inſide with diverſified figures repreſenting the fun, moon, and ſtars. Beneath this temporary dome, the coy maid reclines on a ſoft cuſhion, in an eaſy poſture, while the rarptured youth; ſcouring through fancy's lawn, on the wings of expectation, and already anticipating the joys of connubial felicity, leans oppoſite his ſable Dulcinea in a ſimilar attitude. The breathing inſtruments now wake their trembling ſtrings to announce the coming of the Mulna, who enters the ſcene with an air of Characteriſtic ſolemnity: the muſic gradually ceaſes, till it's expiring voice is lulled into a profound
ſilence
