46 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



,danger of making fhipwreck, informs us^hat they 

 have a moft hideous afpedt, being black, white, 

 and green. Thus Nature increafes the characters 

 of terror, by intermingling with them certain 

 agreeable expreffions-. 



There is a farther obfervation, of effential im- 

 portance, to be made in this place ; namely, that 

 in thofe awful fcenes of danger and affright, the 

 terrible is clofe upon you, and the agreeable is re- 

 moved to an immenfe diftance ; tumult is in the 

 feas, and ferenity in the fky. A prodigious ex- 

 tenfion is thus given to the fentiment of diforder; 

 for there is no apparent boundary fet to tempefts 

 of this fort. All depends on the firft impulsion 

 which we undergo. The fentiment of infinity 

 that is within us, and which is ever making new 

 efforts to propagate itfelf farther and farther, feeks 

 to make it's efcape from the phyfical evil where- 

 with it is furrounded ; but repelled, in fome fort, 

 by the ferenity of the treacherous Horizon, falls 

 back upon itfelf, and undergoes a feverer pang, 

 under the preffure of prefent painful affections, 

 becaufe their fource has the appearance of being 

 invariable. 



Such is the Giant of Storms, Rationed by Na- 

 ture at the entrance of the Seas of India, and fo 

 well delineated by the pencil oiCamoe'ns. Nature, 



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