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her so carefully tied up in a linen cloth.

Aladdin’s mother unfolded the cloths,
and humbly laid the sparkling jewels

before him. It. is impossible to express
the surprise and astonishment which this
monarch felt when he saw collected

together in that dish such a quantity of
the most precious, perfect, and brilliant

jewels, the size, of which was greater
than-any he had before seen* For some
moments he gazed at them speechless.

When, however, he began to recollect
himself, he took the present from the

hand of Aladdin’s mother* and ex­
claimed in a transport of jo y ,t£ A h ! how

very beautiful, how extremely rich I ”
Then turning to his grand vizier, he