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The only connexion between the fubjc& 

 and it's illuftration is, that " each branch 

 " of the large fig-tree of India, emits a 

 " flender, flexile, depending appendage 

 " from it's fummit, like a cord, and which 

 " roots into the earth, and rifes again ; 

 " and the Hamps arid Manifold, rivers of 

 " the Dovedale vicinity, in their courfe 

 " over a romantic moor, fink fuddenly 

 " into the earth, and rife again in Ham 

 " gardens, after their fubterranean pafTage 

 " of three miles." 



Impatiens, Touch-me-not, from the pe- 

 culiar nature of the plant, and the elaftic 

 motion by which it throws it's feeds to a 

 great diftance, has, in it's transformation, 

 fufficient affinity to the ftory of Medea, 

 here introduced as it's fimile. Nowhere 

 is that ftriking poetic legend fo finely told. 

 The paffions of jealoufy and defpair, ex- 

 cited by the mercenary ingratitude of Jafbn, 

 are here painted in their ftrongeft colours, 



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