2J4- MEMOIRS OP 



a malignant Sorcerefs, whofe baleful fpells 

 had been broken by the power of thefe 

 benevolent Naiads. 



The hypothecs, that warm falubrious 

 fprings are produced by fteam arifing from 

 water falling on fubterranean fires, and 

 that this fteam is condenfed between the 

 ftrata of incumbent mountains, and col- 

 lected into fprings, occafions a fportive 

 addrefs to Buxton. It is fucceeded by an 

 elegant compliment to the Duchefs of 

 Devonfhire, leading a train of Graces from 

 Chatfworth to that tepid fountain. From 

 the epithet fairy given to legions, we fhould 

 fuppofe thefe Graces a part of the machinery 

 of the Poet ; but, as the paflage proceeds, 

 it defcribes beautiful young women bath- 

 ing with fuch exquifite precifion, that the 

 fcene of action coniidered, it becomes im- 

 poffible to contemplate them as ideal per- 

 fonages, efpecially as the laft couplet is 

 utterly at war with aerial fubftance ; thus, 



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