2jS STUDIES OF ifATURE. 



been built on the mount of that name, aud SatOr-' 

 nia on the rock firft called the Tarpeian, and af- 

 terwards the Capitol, the place of Jnpiters refi- 

 dence. This ancient tradition, of Jupiter'' s fre- 

 quently colleâ:ing the clouds on the fummit of 

 this foreft- cove red rock, and there brandifliing his 

 dark segis, confirms what has been faid in my pre- 

 ceding Studies of the hydraulic attradlion of the 

 fummits of mountains, and of their forefts, which 

 are the fources of rivers. This was the cafe, like- 

 wife, with Olympus, frequently involved in clouds, 

 on which the Greeks fixed the habitation of the 

 Gods. In the ages of ignorance, religious fenti- 

 ments explained phyfical effedls : in ages of illu- 

 mination, phyfical effeâis bring men back to re- 

 ligious fentiments. Nature, at all times, fpeaks to 

 Man the fame language, in different dialedls. 



Virgil completes the contraft of the ancient mo- 

 numents of Rome, by prefenting a pifture of the 

 poor and fimple habitation of the good King Evan- 

 der, in the very place where fo many fumptuous 

 palaces were afterwards reared. 



* Talibus inter fe di£lis ad tefta fubibant 



Pauperis Evandri : paffimque armenta videbant 

 Roraanoque Foro et lautis mugii-e Carinis. 



* Thus they convers'd on works of ancient fame, 

 Till to the Monarch's humble coui-ts they came ; 



There 



