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Nature here reigns triumphant, and by fhewing what fhe can 
perform alone and unaffifted, teaches us to defpife the weak efforts 
of her inadequate mimick.—The mountains, whofe rugged tops 
exhibit a pleafing interfperfion of rocks and of pine groves, have 
their green fides, for many miles along the coaft, covered with 
olives, whofe lefs- agreeable verdure is corre@ed, embellifhed, and 
brightened by a lively mixture of bays and of laurels afpiring 
to the height of foreft trees, of myrtles, pomegranates, and of 
arbutes, rich at once in bloffom and in berry, of mulberries grow~ 
ing wild, and laden with fruit, and of every other tree 
Of nobleft kind for fight, fmell, tafte! 
@While the luxuriant vine, climbing wild and unreftrained even 
to their topmoft branches, adorns and enriches them with its 
vivid green, and with its cluftering fruit—Winter is here un- 
known.—The climate forbids it—-The verdure is perpetual, and 
the frequency of evergreens gives to December the colour of 
June—The parching heat of fummer is never felt—The thick 
fhade of trees, and thoufands of cryftal fprings, which every 
where arife, and form themfelves into unnumbered rivulets, 
joined to the refrefhing fea breeze, the conftant companion and 
corrective of noontide heat, qualify the burning air, and render 
the year a never ending May— 
— 
Airs, vernal airs! 
Breathing the fmell of field and grove, attune 
The trembling leaves, while univerfal Pan, 
Knit with the Graces, and the hours in dance, 
Leads on the eternal {pring !— 
