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from different kinds of earths; from prof- 

 trate woods, and from morafles ; and this 

 introduces the defcription of a town in the 

 immenfe falt-mines of Poland. Witb his 

 peculiar ingenuity, this Bard of Fancy ihows 

 us the faline city ; and that, and the ftatue 

 fuppofed to be Lot's wife, the river and 

 temple, gleam and fparkle on the imagi- 

 nation of every reader who has imagination. 

 To thofe who have it not, the magnificent 

 pageantries of this poem will pafs unreflecT;- 

 ed, unimpreffive, 



And, like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion, 

 Leave not a wreck behind. 



Perfonification is furely carried too far 

 l^hen, in the next paffage, azotic gas is 

 made the love of the virgin air, and fird 

 transformed into a jealous rival, indignant 

 of the treacherous courtfliip. The trio arc 

 compared to Mars, Venus, and Vulcan, : 

 and the Homeric tale, of the enmefhed- 

 P 4 ' pair, 



