22&' MEMOIRS OF 



pofed to be, from time to time, produced. 

 Thcfe natural transformations are com- 

 paratively illuftrated by thofe of Ovidian 

 fable ; and Proteus-gallantries are retold 

 even more beautifully than Ovid has told 

 them, particularly the flory of Europa. It 

 is here, beyond all poffible tranfcendence, 

 exquifite, and it clofes with a ipirited com- 

 pliment to the natives of Europe. 



Returning to the fubjecT:, the Goddefs 

 reminds her Gnomes of having feen the 

 fubterranean volcanos forming the various 

 fpecies of clay ; from the porcelain of 

 China, and of ancient Etruria, to thofe 

 ufed in the beautiful productions of its 

 modern namefake, brought to fo much 

 perfection by the late Mr. Wedgewood. 

 The mechanifm of the porcelain of China, 

 with its ungraceful forms and gaudy orna- 

 ments, rifes on the page. The fuperiority, 

 in the two laft circumftances, of our Eng- 

 lifh Etruria, is aflerted, as producing " un- 



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