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** a huge mafs of lofty and ever-fmoking rocks : 

 ** in the burning entrails of which, a fpacious ca- 

 ** vern, and the fire-confumed ^Etnean vaults, in- 

 ** ceflantly thunder with the fultry labours of the 

 ** Cyclopian brothers : the anvils reverberate the 

 ** thumping of their fturdy (Irokes : the hammer- 

 *' ing of flaming fteel refounds from cave to cave, 

 ** while flreams of fire afcend from the foaming 

 " furnaces : fuch is the dread domain of Fulca?îy 

 " and from his name the ifland has obtained the 

 ** appellation of Vulcania. Hither it was that the 

 *' fiery God, from the heights of Olympus, now 

 *' repaired. 



'* The Cyclopes there he found plying their 

 ** irony labours in the capacious cavern, BronteSy 

 " and SteropeSy and the naked-limbed Pyracmon. 

 '^ They had in hand a dread thunderbolt, one of 

 ** thofe which father j^ove fo frequently hurls from 

 " flaming Heaven upon the Earth : it was, as yet, 

 ** but half reduced to form, partly polilhed, and 

 *' partly in a rude imperfe(ft ftate. They had 

 " blended in it, three rays of rain, congealed into 

 ** hail ; three of the watery cloud ; three of ruddy 

 *' fire, and three of the winged South-wind. They 

 ** were now infufing into the compofition the ter- 

 ** rific flafii, and noife, and difmay, and anger min- 

 " gling with the rapid flame. In another forge, 

 ** they were ardently fini 111 ing a warlike car, and 



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