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at present, wherefore I am here, and why I have not been impatient to join a lover, who has ceased to please me; and by whom, ere this, I am doubtless forgotten, having been eighteen months absent: should he by chance remain faithful, I never could support his complaints and reproaches: all countries, therefore, are to me indifferent, since I cannot return to my own; and, provided I neither see vast plains nor lawns, I do not care where I live.

When Agelia had thus spoken, I rose, and, describing in the air a circle with my wand, changed the palace and gardens of Prudina into a magnificent castle, situated on the summit of a mountain: we found ourselves standing on the terrace, whence we had the most charming and variegated view. Agelia seemed transported again to behold rocks, cascades, precipices, ruins, hamlets, flocks, and the ocean: for I had united every thing, which nature affords of the pleasing and the majestic, plains excepted. Agelia was in raptures: Here reign, said I; if my presence be

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