292 MEMOIRS OF 



facrific'mg, with all it's proftrate honors, to 

 a popular fcheme of apprehended utility. 



Mr. Wright's pictures are here introduced 

 as a fimile ; but it muft be confefled that 

 not the moft diftant firnilitude can be 

 traced between them and the Ilex, or Holly, 

 which, as enchanters and giants, guard the 

 Foreft; but the poetic copy of thefe un- 



allulive landfcapes is tranfcendent. 



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The immenfe Kleinhovia, indigenous to 

 the plains of Orixa, is prefented as an ama- 

 zonian nymph ; and as the male parts or 

 the tree are, in nature, fupported by the 

 female, me is pourtrayed in Herculean 

 beauty, bearing in her arms her puny 

 lovers, trembling beneath the confcioufnefs 

 of her fuperior ftrength. A grand picture 

 of the Grecian Thaleftris, appropriate to 

 the fubje&j thus illuftrates the transform- 

 ation : 



So bright Thaleftris fhook her plumy creft, 

 And bound in rigid mail her Dwelling breaft, 



PoistJ 



