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Excerpt from The Pillar of Fire: Or Israel in Bondage AT length, my dear mother, I have reached the 'land of the Seven Rivers, and do now write to you from her gorgeous capital, on, The City of the Sun. How shall I describe to you the grand and solemn magnificence of this city of divine temples, and con vey to you a just idea of its palaces that seem rather to have been erected for the abodes of gods than of inen! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.