24 MEMOIRS OP 



bitter foliage on the rivers. She obeys ; 

 her lovers fell the trees, and impregnate the 

 waters with the leaves, while pale infe&ed 

 fquadrons kneel on the margin, and health 

 and bloom return as they drink. All this 

 forms a complete and charming little 

 drama. It needed no illustration, but it 

 has a very ferious one, that of Mofes in the 

 Wilderncfs, ftriking the rock, " fo that 

 " the waters flowed out." 



To the bark-metamorphofis fucceeds 

 that of the Digitalis, Fox-glove, of whofc 

 now experienced, though not infallible vir- 

 tue, in dropfical cafes, Dr. Darwin claims 

 the iirft difcovery. The bloated and cada- 

 verous form of Dropfy appears, and his un- 

 quenchable thirft is compared to that of 

 Tantalus in thefe four admirable lines: 



So bends tormented Tantalus to drink, 



While frgm his lips the refluent waters (brink ; 



Again the riling ft ream his bofom laves, 



Aud thirft confumes him 'mid circumfluent waves. 



Hygeia 



