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the child, only that dew-cold and milkkfs 

 are not infantine expreffions. 



The Cufcuta, Dodder, four males two 

 females. It does not root itfelf in the 

 earth, but afcends the vegetables in it's 

 neighbourhood, and ultimately deflroys 

 the plant on which it had grown to ma- 

 turity. In this fyftem of animality it is 

 reprefented as two treacherous coquets, 

 fmiling to betray ; and, from the circum- 

 ftance of the plant twining round the 

 fhrub or tree, which it finally kills, the 

 ungrateful beauties are compared to the 

 ferpents, which ftrangled Lac-Toon and his 

 fons. That ftory here forms a faithful 

 poetic picture of the celebrated ftatue. 



In the transformation of the Vine into a 

 Bacchanalian Female,the Doctor introduces, 

 and enforces his juft and favorite fyftem, of 

 confidering the free ufe of vinous fluid, in 

 all it's ftages, as the fource of our mofl 

 fatal chronic difeafes. They are very 

 z 4 poetically 



