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respect towards them. Here is a lesson for christians! 

Your letter has set me all on fire to read history. I want to go to Rome, to Jerusalem, to the River Euphrates, and even to Pekin in China. I am soon to begin the reading of Goldsmith's History of Greece, of Rome, and of England, abridged. 

Papa says I must read moderately, so that I may have time to digest what I read; otherwise it will be of little use to me. 

After perusing your letter, I had the curiosity to look over the map of Bruce's Travels. He makes the Nile to run through a lake. Some might consider that lake more properly the source of the river. I have heard that a late traveller into the interior of Africa supposes that the celebrated Niger is no less than the river Nile. 

In Mr. Carey's late edition of the Bible, is a large map, exhibiting a view of the journeyings of the Israelites through the desert to the land of Canaan. That comprehends


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hends a part of the country included in Bruce's map.

I am, dear Robert,
Your friend and humble servant, 
AARON ADVENTURER.
Master Robert Rover.

LETTER XXXII.
From Miss LAURA LITTLETON to Miss MATILDA MAITLAND.
Northampton, Jan. 10th, 1803.

DEAR MATILDA,

I have the pleasure to inform you that I have been lately learning to spin. When I saw you last, I felt a little mortified, that you should find out I was entirely ignorant of that useful employment; though I thought I could then knit and sew, as well as girls in general of my age. The fact is, I was then attending school, every day.

My mamma, you know, is an industrious woman; and though she is anxious to give her children