2So Dr. Falconer on the Influence of the Scenery 
miferable was placed in a region,* dark and 
uncultivated, foul and horrible, in which cir- 
cumftances, the mifery of thofe condemned to 
inhabit it was thought, in a good meafure, to 
confift. Such are the effects we fuppofe pro¬ 
ducible by the beautiful face of a country. 
Let us now fee what would be the effe&s of 
one of a different appearance. 
Hippocrates obferves, t that the inhabitants 
of rough, mountainous, and uncultivated coun- 
* Low in the dark Tartarean gulf fhall groan. 
Iliad. VIII. L. 16- 
No fun e’er gilds the gloomy horrors there, 
No chearful gales refrelh the lazy air. 
Iliad. VIII. 601 et. 
At fcelerata fedes jacet in no&e profunda 
Abdita, quam circum flumina nigra fonant. 
Tibull. I. El. 4. 
---turn Tartarus ipfe 
Bis patetin prasceps tantum, tenditque fub umbras, 
Quantus ad x thereum cosli fufpe&us Olympum. 
Virg. j®n. Lib. VI. 
- - - - diverfo itinere malos a bonis loca tetra, inculta, 
feda atque formidolofa habere. 
Salluji. Bell. Catilinar, 
Efie inferos Stoicus Zenon docuit et fedes prorfum ab 
impiis elfe diferetas et illos quidem quietas et deleftabiles 
incolere regiones, hos vero luere paenas in tenebrofis locis, 
atque in caeni voraginibus horrendis. 
Laftantii. Lib. VIII. C. 7. 
■J- De Aerib. aquis et locis. Cap. LV. 
tries. 
