degree injure it's circulation ; yet it fully 

 compenfates the injury by the beauty, and 

 fragrancy of it's flowers : 



With clafping tendrils it inverts the branch, 

 Elfe unadorned, with many a gay feftoon, 

 And fragrant chaplet ; recompenfing well 

 The ftrength it borrows with the grace it lends. 



Under warm funs, where vines are the 

 offspring of nature, nothing can be more beau- 

 tiful than the foreft tree, adorned with their 

 twitting branches, hanging from bough to 

 bough, and laden with fruit ; 



' the clufters clear 

 Half through the foliage feen 



In the road between Pifa and Florence, 

 Dr. Smollet informs us, the country is often 

 thus adorned. The vines are not planted in 

 rows, and propped with flicks, as in France, 

 and the county of Nice; but twine naturally 

 around the hedge-row-trees, which they almofl 

 cover with their foliage, and fruit. Extending 

 from tree to tree, they exhibit beautiful fef- 

 toons of leaves, tendrils, and fwelling clufters, 

 black and white, hanging down from every 



bough 



