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216 TRAVELS IN A PRIC~.did indolence, is :fast resumitlg its true station, andthe fathers of historywill recover that respect of which they haiV'e been 80 long unjtlstlydeprived.A vast mass of knowledge, geographical for instance, appears,thoughcouchedin personification and my~tery,to have beeD inthe possession of theancients. Indeed, in whateverhas dependedbp6Iîdeplll of thought, they appear still as much aSeve'f our masters.'iVe, it is true, have the advantage of them,butonJy uron those points .which are the result of continuity of experiment.ffhe habits of life inmodern times by no means admit of t.hatptofcffifJ.ity>of invèstigation ofthings and caùses, wbich'ourprhn!itl\re'fatners wère enabled to apply~and wearemuch safetin adopting than in contravening theirîdeas.The Sacred Books, upon such points as they spea'k to, â.ffordthe finitdues to lead the investigator throug'h the clark lâbyl"inth ofrenigma àndsymboJ, of time and misconception, wîthin which the Io,"eliness ofTruth is attempted to be concealed,becanse her existence cannot betotally extinguished.conclusive, iIltheir silence ptove no négative.But the Sacred Bodks,though their lvordsa.rêHowmuchof then'l too,which is by shallow readersassigned to fact and person, is in feaJitymoral allegory.Itinerœry.--M_oGODOR to MOROCCO.RIVER GUADISSAWA.-'"TheArabie appears to have, as might be expected, supersedecl the prill1itivelanguage in fhe plain 'here, even in local names. This at Ieast isArabie. The primithre language would be the interesting object of tesearch,did anyhope exist of finding it.At the hOUT of eleven our escort forded the Guadiss'awa, and haltedon its banks to walt for the baggage, uncler the shadeor some :loftytrees.0h the arrivaI of the cattle-of-burthen, thetents were pitcbedfor the nigllt, upou a stubble surrounded by lûxurlaflt nl~ad(),vs ofd·eep