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Thus genial intercourfe, and mutual aid 

 Cheered what were elfe an univerfal fhade ; 

 Called nature from her ivy-mantled den, 

 And foftened human rock-work into men. 



When man became thus refined, we leave 

 him. When he relinquiihed the foreft, we 

 have no farther connection with him. His 

 haunts, and habits are no longer the object of 

 conjecture. They become the fubject of re- 

 corded hiftory. To the fage hiftorian therefore 

 we now confign him ; and return to the foreft, 

 which at this day in moft parts of the world, 

 where any forefts remain, is left in pofTefTion 

 of the brute creation. 



Under the burning funs of Lybia, in the 

 forefts of Zara, and Bildulgerid, the lordly 

 lion reigns. He harbours too in the woods 

 of India; but there he is an ignoble brute, 

 compared with the lion of Africa. The 

 African lion is a beaft of unrivalled prowefs. 

 Nothing appalls him. From his dark re- 

 cefles in the foreft, he fometimes eyes the 

 numerous caravan ; men, horfes, and camels, 

 marching in flow cavalcade along the burning 

 fands of Barca. He lafhes his tail ; collects 

 his ftrength ; and bounding forward, tho fin- 



