drops for righteous Codan's loss and duteous Ahud's absence.

These happy duties finished, the royal Sadak arose and went toward Doubor the faithful eunuch.

Friend of my bosom, and great instrument of all my joy!' said Sadak, embracing him, not all the monarch of the Othman throne can do for thee can ever repay thy generous ⚫ services: happy am I to think that Alla will reward thee with the heartfelt pleasure of an approving conscience;-that, Doubor, shall be thy chief reward: for worldly pleasures, ⚫ command thy Sadak's fortune, the wealth of all my empire is at thy disposal.'

The beauteous Kalasrade and her children followed the example of Sadak, and all with joy acknowledged Doubor's generous kindness.

The good old man, overcome by the affecting scene, in silence lifted up his watery eyes to Heaven, then fell at Sadak's feet, and would have kissed his sandals; but the grateful Sadak raised him up, and seated him beside his amiable Kalasrade.

Serenity and mildness succeeded in the af fectionate interview, where all were happy in

each other, and where all acknowledged the source of their happiness in the bounties of Alla.

THE genius Adiram thus finished her tale, and Iracagem and the surrounding genii bowed from their thrones; the children of earth were filled with firm resolutions of fortitude, and the noble image of Sadak fired their youthful imaginations.

While the sons of the faithful,' said Iracagem, have received the impressions of fortitude 'from the lips of our sister Adiram, the daugh'ters of our prophet have been well instructed in constancy and truth by the glorious example of the firm Kalasrade; and doubt not, ye beauteous offspring! but virtue and fidelity 'shall be as greatly distinguished, and as fully rewarded, in the female sex, as ye see it honoured and approved among the sons of men. 'Born for each other, and alike endowed with an ever-living soul, the great Alla impartially regards the sufferings and the virtues ' of all his children; and where weakness most ⚫ prevails, there most his gracious strength sup

ports and comforts in the unequal conflict.

'Nor weakly think, ye daughters of afflic'tion! your sex is loaded with superior ills; '-though man in strength surpass you, yet 'seldom, against the virtuous and self-resolved breast, prevails his brutal force: guardians of · your sex, our watchful race attendant view your toils, and turn, unseen, the base designs ' of man back on himself; or make your suf'ferings, when sustained with truth, appear 'far brighter ornaments than the gem which ⚫ vainly strives to cast a lustre on your charms.

Fair daughters, persevere, and let no foul 'intruder sully the beauteous image of a fe'male soul: from your approving smiles the sons of Adam take their first impressions; ' and were every woman virtuous, man soon ⚫ would blush at vice, and copy you.'

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Thus said the smiling genius to his tender charge, nor added more: then turning toward the illustrious Nadan

'Nadan,' said the sage Iracagem, 'we next expect to hear the mild doctrines of thy per'suasive tongue.'

'Chief of our immortal race!' answered the venerable Nadan, I obey.'

TALE X.

MIRGLIP THE PERSIAN; OR, FINCAL The dervise OF THE GRoves.

In the first ages of the mahommedan faith, the kingdom of Persia was governed by Adhim the Magnificent, who removed the royal palace from Ispahan to Raglai, and enlarged the glories of his habitation beyond the example of all his predecessors.

The palace itself was built on the mountain Orez, standing on an extensive plain, which was surrounded by four walls two hundred feet in height, and covered with a platform of marble whereon nine chariots might drive a-breast. The northern wall, which looked toward the Caspian sea, was three leagues in length, and supported by six-and-thirty towers, whose turrets reached one hundred and eightytwo feet above the platform of the wall.

The wall to the south, which looked toward Ormus, the great city, was also three leagues in length, and was supported by six-and-thirty towers of equal height with the former.

The western wall looked toward Assyria, and its towers were in number thirty and six, and its length, from the first tower southward to that which looked toward the north, was three leagues.

The eastern wall, which completed the fortification, looked toward the kingdoms of India; and its towers and its platform and its extent were equal to the rest of the walls which Ad him had caused to be built around the plain. of Orez, the place of his habitation.

Within these walls Adhim caused the plain to be divided into gardens; and, because there was no river near, he employed three hundred thousand men to bring the great river Abutour from beyond Casomabat to the eastern side of the plain, where it entered through the wall, under an arch whose centre reached even to the platform which Adhim had caused to be laid on the surface of the wall which he had built.

In these gardens Adhim built a thousand palaces for his nobles and warriors; and in the midst, on a rocky mountain whose summit was eight hundred feet from the river Abutour, which was made to run round the mountain, stood the palace of the king.

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