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fixed 'me almoft motionlefs to the fpot. 

 The roofs of the work having in many 

 parts fallen in, have left fome of the rudeft 

 fcenes imagination can paint, and the ful- 

 phureous fmell arifing from the kilns in 

 which the ore is roafted, made it feem to 

 me like the veftibule to Tartarus. 



Hac inter Elyfium nobis; at lasva malorum 

 Exercet poenas, et ad impia Tartarus mittit. 



Virg. 



'Tis here in different paths the way divides, 

 The right to Pluto's golden palace guides; 

 The left to that unhappy region tends, 

 Which to the depth of Tartarus defcends; 

 The feat of night profound, and punifli'd fiends. 



The mountain, owing to the fulphureous 

 fumes from the works, is fo entirely def- 

 titute of every kind of vegetable produc- 

 tion for above half a mile on every fide, 

 that there is not in that fpace fo much as 

 T 3 even 



