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82 Juvenile Letters.

That you and I may profit by such lessons
as these, is the ardent wish of
Your sincere friend,
HENRIETTA HARDING,
Miss Susan Sanderson.

LETTER XXX.

From Master Robert Rover to Master Aaron 
Adventurer.

Boston.

Dear Friend,

NOTWITHSTANIDNG the history
of our own country ought first to claim our 
attention, yet I feel within me a strong pro-
pensity to wander into distant climes, and
learn what they have done and are now doing
in the old world. For this purpose, I obtain-
ed leave of papa to take the Abridgment of 
Bruce's Travels from the library; and have
accompanied him in imagination, clear the
source of the Nile. And I expect you will
value all the news I bring from thence, in pro-
portion to the distance.

With

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With this traveller I have viewed the pyra-
mids of Egypt, those stupendous monuments
of folly ! Here we traversed the land of the
Pharaohs, of Joseph and of Moses. Thence
we followed the track of the children of Israel
to the Red Sea; saw the very spot where the
waters were divided for the chosen people to
pass over on dry ground, and where their pur-
suers were overwhelmed in the flood.

After navigating the Red Sea, Mr. Bruce 
proceeded to the land of Abyssinia, where he 
dwelt several years, among a people, who, ac-
ccording to his account, are abandoned to
every species of vice. After this, he drank at
the Source of the Nile, a place for ages sought,
but never before found by any of the civilized
world.

On his return to Egypt, he and his compan-
ions suffered almost unparalleled hardships. In
passing the sandy deserts, they were many days
at a time with little or nothing to eat or drink,
while scorching under the rays of an uncloud-
ed sun. Here even their camels, those useful 
animals, which are capable of enduring incred-
ible

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