4-0O STUDIES OF NATUR2>- 



your own caflle, throw your eye over the plains 

 below. As the profpecr. gradually extends, it 

 terminates in a Horizon much more beautiful than 

 thofe of defolated Greece. Your apartment is 

 more commodious than a grotto, and your fophas 

 much fofter than the turf. The undulation, and 

 the murmuring found of your flowery meadows 

 are more grateful to the fenfe than thofe of the 

 billows of the Mediterranean. Your money and 

 your own gardens can fupply you with greater va- 

 riety of the choiceft wines and fruits than all the 

 iilands of the Archipelago could produce. Would 

 you blend with thefe delights that of Deity ? Be- 

 hold on yonder hill, that fmall pari(h-church, en- 

 circled by aged elms. Among the young women 

 who there affemble, under it's ruftic portico, there 

 may be, undoubtedly, fome forlorn Ariadne, be- 

 trayed by a faithlefs lover *. She is not made of 



marble. 



* There are, in our own plains, young females much more re- 

 fpe&able than Ariadne, to whom our Hiftorians, who make fuch 

 a parade of virtue, pay no manner of attention. A perfon of my 

 acquaintance obferved one Sunday, at the gate of a country- 

 church, a young woman at prayer, quite alone, while they were 

 chanting vefpers within. As he remained fome time in the 

 place, he obferved, for feveral Sundays fucceflively, that fame 

 young woman, who never once entered the church during the 

 fervice. Being mightily ftruck with this Angularity of beha- 

 viour, he enquired into the meaning of it at fome others of the 

 female peafants, who anfwered him, that it muft be her own 



will 



