Paul and Virginia . Tour and Margaret used to recounttheir misfortunes, was called the Burial-place of bestowed the names of Brittany and Normandy ontwo little plots of ground where they had sown corn, straw-berries, and peas. Domingo and Mary, wishing in imita-tion of their mistresses, to recall to mind Angola andFoullepointe, the places of their birth in Africa, gavethose names to the little fields where the grass was sownwith which they wove their baskets, and where they hadplanted a calabash tree. Thus, by cultivating the pro-ductions of their respective climates these exiled fa
Paul and Virginia . Tour and Margaret used to recounttheir misfortunes, was called the Burial-place of bestowed the names of Brittany and Normandy ontwo little plots of ground where they had sown corn, straw-berries, and peas. Domingo and Mary, wishing in imita-tion of their mistresses, to recall to mind Angola andFoullepointe, the places of their birth in Africa, gavethose names to the little fields where the grass was sownwith which they wove their baskets, and where they hadplanted a calabash tree. Thus, by cultivating the pro-ductions of their respective climates these exiled familiescherished the dear illusions which bind us to our nativecountry and softened their regrets in a foreign land. Alas !I have seen these trees, these fountains, these heaps ofstones, which are now so completely overthrown—whichnow, like the desolated plains of Greece, present nothingbut masses of ruin and affecting remembrances—all butcalled into life by the many charming appellations thusbestowed upon VIRGINIA TENDING THE SICK. PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 109 But perhaps the most delightful spot of this enclosurewas that called Virginias resting-place. At the foot ofthe rock which bore the name of The Discovery of Friend-ship is a small crevice, whence issues a fountain, formingnear its source a little spot of marshy soil in the middleof a field of rich grass. At the time of Pauls birth Ihad made Margaret a present of an Indian cocoa whichhad been given me, and which she planted on the borderof this fenny ground in order that the tree might oneday serve to mark the epoch of her sons birth. Madamede la Tour planted another cocoa with the same viewat the birth of Virginia. These nuts produced two cocoatrees, which formed the only records of the two families;one was called Pauls tree, the other Virginias. Theirgrowth was in the same proportion as that of the twoyoung persons, not exactly equal; but they rose, at theend of twelve years, above the roofs of the
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