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expected from genius rich as Dr. Darwin's ; 

 but in the prefent inftance we are difap- 

 pointed. This generally fo very accurate 

 defcriber, here indolently facrifices the 

 verifimilitude of the circumftance, rather 

 than change his rhymes. Echoes talk in 

 the air and along walls^ but we never hear 

 their voice at our feet. They are there in 

 double inaccuracy, iincc if the oaken viftas 

 returned the found, that found is echo ; fb 

 we have firft a literal echo, and, immedi- 

 ately after, a plurality of perfonified echoes 

 creeping on all four, and telling their imi- 

 tative tales where no " Nymph of the airy 

 " cell," as Milton beautifully terms the 

 echo, ever deigned even to whifper. 

 Suppofe, 



Long ailes of oak the filver founds retain, 



And all their echoes breath'd the amorous ftrain. 



Dr. Darwin proceeds to recall his readers 

 to the local fituation of his Mufe : 



Pleas'd 



