1792. the mountain and grottoes, a vision. Cy 
(said I,) are the names of these excellent flowers ?” 
For I had now pulled some, and really found that 
there ifsued from them a kind of celestial odour. — 
‘¢ They are, (added fhe,) the flowers of good nature, 
prudence, temperance; contentment, economy, piety, 
and other virtues; but, alas! they are very little 
regarded. You see they are even trampled on as 
noxious weeds.” piss 
Being now advanced within the grotto, I found 
that both sides of it were cut Into a great many 
apartments or cells, into which great numbers of 
both sexes, leaving the direct pafsage through the 
grotto, ‘hurried with precipitation, often abandon- 
ing their mates. I ‘could plainly distinguifh the 
cells of Difsipation, Extravagance, Drunkennefs, 
Gaming, Jealousy, Adultery, and a great many 
more, which, as my conductrefs told me, had each © 
in the back part, more or lefs removed, an apartment, 
stiled the cell of Poverty, or the cell of Disgrace. 
All these excavations, as well as the pafsage of 
the grotto, ‘resembled the plain, in having a great 
number of trap doors, that.incefsantly swallowed up 
those who prefsed upom them ; and as soon as any 
one disappeared, the remaining partner instantly 
hurried out of the grotto, either im a state of de- 
spondence or of joy. 
I fhould have mentioned before, that almost every 
couple that approached towards the grotto, was ac- 
companied by little winged Cupids, that generally 
abandoned them near the entrance. Very few of these 
little deities were to be found in the interior parts. 
For no sooner had any one couple manifested a de- 
