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may ferve to decorate our gardens, if the too great quantity of fruit does not prevent the reproduction of their blofibms.    Thefe reflections prove,  that the French women have no reafon to envy ftrangers; that their beauty, in fact, though longer in corning to maturity, and lefs perfect, is more bewitching and more durable ;  that if others furnilh better models for the painter, they will- ftand the teft of a longer examination, and that,  in fhort, if they are not always thofe we moft admire, they are certainly thofe  we  mull love  the moft   and  the longeft.
But let me return from this dangerous excurfion, and  refume my journey.    We-
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once compleated,. they part with as little affefliori a* when they met, but with lefs paffion, and pafs the remainder of their lives in perfeft freedom. Whilft family duty is performing for family purpofes, their conduft is dictated, in general, by the nicefl honour, and their noble blood is tranfmitted tolerably pure and free from contamination; but " unlimited fecundity," as it is checked by fome on principles of ceco-nomy and prudence, is deemed vulgar and barbarous by all, except the lower claffes, who are ftrangers to this fyftem of refinement.             Translator,