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are peerles. She has about her the trace* 

 of the humid element, from which flic 

 rifes, and they increafe her general lovcli- 

 nefs and grace ; wringing, with rofy 

 fingers, her golden trefles, as they hang 

 uncurled around her fair brows, while 

 bright drops of water roll from her lifted 

 arms, wander round her neck, ftand in 

 pearls upon her polifhed fhoulders and 

 back, and ftar with glittering brine her 

 whole lucid form. Thus the Darwinian 

 Venus, 



O'er the fmooth furge, on filver fandals flood, 

 And look'd enchantment on the dazzled flood. 



The firft terreftrial volcano is next de- 

 fcribed ; an earthquake of incalculable 

 magnitude, producing continents and 

 iflands on the before united and level earth, 

 with feparating oceans rolling between 

 them. The birth of the Moon is now 

 reprefented as thrown from the Earth near 



the 



