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There is not, perhaps, to be found elsewhere in literature so solemn a memorial of shipwrecked hopes, of a sunny opening and a stormy end, as one finds in turning the leaves of the volume which contains the beautiful epigram 'Nympha Caledoniae' in one part, the 'Detectio Mariae Reginae' in another; and this contrast is, no doubt, a faithful parallel of the reaction in the popular mind.

Morland relates an instance of a woman in the fifth month of her second pregnancy, who fell on the roof of a woodshed by slipping from one of the steps by which she ascended to the roof, in the act of hanging out some clothes to dry. She suffered a wound on the internal surface of the left nympha 1 1/2 inch long and 1/2 inch deep.

It is intimately connected with their religion, and they give it a wonderful origin. Vishnu, the God of Light, the Preserver, is represented seated upon the lotus and holding one of the flowers in his hand. There are two species of the water-lily in the East the one mentioned and the Nympha coerulea. The latter, as the name implies, is blue, and said to be wonderfully beautiful. A blue water-lily!

"O lacrymarum fons, tenero sacros Ducemtium ortus ex animo, quater Felix, in imo qui scatentem Pectore, te, pia nympha, sensit." Rhoda Gale, who hated music like poison, crept up to her, and, infolding her delicately, laid a pair of wet eyes softly on her shoulder. Vizard now tapped at the door, and was admitted from the music-room. He begged Ina to choose another composition from her book.

For example, the same thing is treated more than once; Jubar is twice illustrated by the same quotation, Canis is twice derived from canere; merces is differently explained in two places; Lympha is derived both from lapsus aquae, and from Nympha; valicinari from vesanus and versibus viendis.

Among these could be distinguished that gigantic nympha so celebrated under the name of Victoria regia for South America is the native country of this rare plant. Every night, as our party were resting from their labours, they heard strange noises proceeding from the water. There was plunging and plashing, and now and then a snorting sound like that sometimes uttered by frightened swine.