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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 Juvenile Letters. 83 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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