^62 5TUl>%ES OF NATURE. 



" blufhes, his robe of lamb's fkin, which was fuf- 

 ** pended on a willow. He crofles the Seine on a 

 *' bank of fand, and prefenting his hand to Ceres, 

 '* fhcws her a path through the naidft of the waters. 



** Ceres having paffed the river, gives the boy 

 ** Lois a cake, a fheaf of corn, and a kifs ; (he then 

 *' informs him how bread was made from the 

 ** corn, and how corn grows in the fields. Thanks, 

 ** beauteous ftranger, returned Lois ; 1 will carry 

 '* to my mother thy leflbns, and thy welcome 

 ** preients. 



** The mother of Loh divides with her child 

 '* and hufband the cake and the kifs. The en- 

 *' raptured father cultivates a field, and fows the 

 " grain. By and by the Earth is clothed with a 

 ** golden harveft, and a report is diffufed over the 

 '* Gauls, that a Goddefs had prefented a celeftial 

 ** plant to their fortunate inhabitants. 



** Near to that place lived a Druid. He was 

 " entrufted with the infpeétion of the forefts. He 

 " meafured out to the Gauls, for food, beech- 

 " maft, and acorns from the oak. When he be- 

 " held a field cultivated, and a rich harveft : 

 •* What becomes of my power, fays he, if men 

 ** learn to live on corn ? 



He 



