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ought not to have appeared in fuch com- 

 pany. Her comparative infignificance is 

 that of a wafp between a cobracapella and 

 a rattle-make. The ruins of Palmira are 

 described as a fimile to the mifchiefs of the 

 four preceding witches, but why or where- 

 fore defies all poetic guefs; however, the 

 fault of utter inconneclion is atoned by 

 the grandeur of this fombre pi<flure. 



To that fucceeds the embrutality of the 

 Upas Tree, now fuppofed to be of fabulous 

 exiftence. It is preceded by a beautiful 

 landfcape of the Ifle of Java, in the centre 

 of which this dreadful tree was aflerted to 

 have flood. The feas of glafs, the noble 

 rocks, the ever-fummered gales, and the 

 fylvan graces which zone that large ifland, 

 form an exquifite contraft in this paflage, 

 to the defolation round the Hydra Tree of 

 Death, as it's author fublimely calls it. The 

 Upas Tree becomes a terrific monfter under 

 the wand of our potent magician. The 

 z enormous 



