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poetically imperfonifed as they hover round 

 the fedudive nymph, Vitis, while Chemia 

 mingles poifon in her bowl. This, fell 

 group is admirably illuftrated by an image 

 of Prometheus chained to a rock, with a 

 vulture devouring his liver. The many 

 diforders of the liver, fo torturing and 

 fo fatal, which ebriety caufes, are nobly 

 allegorized in this fable of him, who is 

 reprefented as being thus punilhed for hav- 

 ing ftolen fire from heaven. Dr. Darwin's 

 note to this paffages deferves to be engraven 

 on every man's memory, fince it is the 

 atteftation of a great Phyfician, founded on 

 an extenfive - practice of nearly half a 

 century. 



The Cyclamen, Shewbread or Sowbread, 

 which, " when it's feeds are ripe, gradually 

 " twifts it's ftalk fpirally downward, till it 

 " touches the earth, and there inferts it's 

 " offspring," is changed into a tender 

 matron, refigning her departed infants to 



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