338 MEMOIRS OF 



enormous dragon is grand, with his un- 

 numbered heads extending over ten fquarc 

 leagues, and with many infant ferpents 

 growing out of him, like thofe of Sin in 

 the Paradiie Loft ; a dragon, that 



Looks o'er the clouds, and hiffes in the florin. 



Into a monfter the Upas muft be made. 

 This Poet's fyftem of vegetable animality 

 would not permit it to remain in that fo 

 much more impreffive though quieter 

 horror, with which it is defcribed in the 

 Dutch furgeon's narrative. A lonely tree 

 by the fide of a rivulet, in a barren and (tony 

 valley, circled round by vail and Iterile 

 mountains; no tree but itfelf! no hedge! 

 no blade of grafs ! no wing of bird ! no- 

 thing that breathes to difturb the dreadful 

 iilence ! dead bodies fcattered about the 

 wafte in every various ftage of putridity ; 

 and the tree itfelf exhaling a viiible and 

 poifonous vapor, inftantly fatal to every 



living 



