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Canada. Their operations are oddly com- 

 pared to the effects 'of the fympathetie 

 inks, and of a picture drawn in them ; and 

 a receipt to make them is given in a note. 

 The nymphs are now exhorted to quit 

 the fummer-regions when the dog-ftar 

 ihall prefide in them. It's often blighting 

 influence on the fruits of the earth is illuf- 

 trated by an alluiion to the fate of Semele. 

 Then rifes an iceland fcene, and an aftro- 

 nomic perfonification. Look at it, cour- 

 teous reader, and if with eyes of Indiffer- 

 ence, arraign the power of prejudice in 

 thy mind, or fufpecl: thy want of tafte for 

 the higher orders of poetry. 



There, in her azure coif, and ftarry flol^, 

 Grey Twilight fits, and rules the {lumbering Polrj 

 Bends the pale moon-bearrr round the fparkling co:Ui 

 And ftrews with livid hands eternal froft. 



An agency of the ignited particles in 

 creation, that of feparating the ice-iflands, 

 fancifully induces a commahd from the 



Goddcf^ 



