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remember to have heard it, then and there, said, that the Blessed Land
was once fertile as the bottoms of the Mississippi, and groaning with
its stores of grain and fruits; but that the judgment has since fallen
upon it, and that it is now more remarkable for its barrenness than
any qualities to boast of."
"It is true; but Egypt--nay much of Africa furnishes still more
striking proofs of this exhaustion of nature."
"Tell me," interrupted the old man, "is it a certain truth that
buildings are still standing in that land of Pharaoh, which may be
likened, in their stature, to the hills of the 'arth?"
"It is as true as that nature never refuses to bestow her incisores on
the animals, mammalia; genus, homo--"
"It is very marvellous! and it proves how great He must be, when His
miserable creatur's can accomplish such wonders! Many men must have
been needed to finish such an edifice; ay, and men gifted with
strength and skill too! Does the land abound with such a race to this
hour?"
"Far from it.


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