214 MEMOIRS OF 



" how you trembled !" but infinite is 

 the poetic fancy with which the hypo- 

 thefis is maintained, of the earth being 

 ftruck from the crater of the fun, and the 

 moon from the firft terreftrial volcano. 



The Goddefs now reminds her fubter- 

 ranean hand-maids of their affiftance in 

 having formed into marble and other petri- 

 fic fubftances, the diflblving fhells which 

 covered the prominent parts of the earth, 

 thrown up from her ocean in that firft 

 convulfion, by fub- marine fires. Sculpture 

 is here introduced, and poetic cafts of the 

 famous ancient ftatues, the Hercules, An- 

 tinous, Apollo, and Venus, rife from the 

 page, Roubilliac, unqueftionably the firft 

 ftatuary of the modern world, is praifed 

 with enthufiafm ; and Mrs. Darner, the 

 ingenious miftrefs of the chifel, with 

 delight. 



To the Gnomes is next imputed the 

 power of extra&ing the faline particles 



from 



