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during the night in the search of her daughter Proser- 

 pine. 



Ovid speaks of the Pine by the name of Teda. Bry- 

 done observes, that Teda is still the name of a tree 

 growing on Mount Etna, which produces a great quan- 

 tity of resin, and was surely the most proper tree that 

 Ceres could have chosen for her purpose *. From the 

 use of the Pine for torchwood, Teda has also been used 

 to signify a torch, and has extended to our own lan- 

 guage: 



" At which a bushy teade a groom did light, 

 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, 

 Where it should not be quenched day nor night 

 For fear of evil Fates, but burnen ever bright." 



SPENSER. 



Homer thus describes the part of the Sicilian coast 

 where the Cyclops dwelt : 



" When to the nearest verge of land we drew, 

 Fast by the sea a lonely cave we view, 

 High, and with darkening laurels covered o'er ; 

 Where sheep and goats lay slumbering round the shore. 

 Near this a fence of marble from the rock, 

 Brown with o'erarching pine, and spreading oak . 

 A giant shepherd here his flock maintains 

 Far from the rest, and solitary reigns, 

 In shelter thick of horrid shade reclined ; 

 And gloomy mischiefs labour in his mind." 



POPE'S Homer's Odyssey, Book ix. 



Sir Philip Sidney gives an inviting description of a 

 wood of Pines : 



" They lighted downe in a faire thicke wood, which 

 did entice them with the pleasantnesse of it to take their 



* Brydone's Tour through Sicily and Malta, Letter XI. p. 164. 



