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THE

HISTORY

OF

RASSE LAS,

PRINCE OF ABISSINIA.

CHA P. I.

Defcription of a palace in a valley.

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whifpers of fancy, and perfue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficien

VOL. I.

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cies of the present day will be fupplied by the morrow; attend to the hiftory of Raffelas prince of Abiffinia.

Raffelas was the fourth fon of the mighty emperour, in whofe dominions the Father of waters begins his courfe; whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty, and scatters over half the world the harvests of Egypt.

According to the custom which has defcended from age to age among the monarchs of the torrid zone, Raffelas was confined in a private palace, with the other fons and daughters of Abiffinian royalty, till the order of fucceffion fhould call him to the throne.

The place, which the wifdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the refidence of the Abiffinian princes, was a

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