366 MEMOIRS OF 



Salinum, Saline Bafil, two males two fe- 

 males. She is complimented with chaftity 

 as having but one lover. Her fituation 

 prefents a fine landfcape, and her form is 

 arrayed in every feminine and modeft at- 

 traction. The fpray of ocean bathes her 

 delicate limbs, uncurls her amber-hued 

 trefles, and encrufts her perfon with faline 

 films, through which, as from amidft a 

 Ihrine of cryftal, her beauty beams. To 

 this faline plant belongs a note extremely 

 worth the attention of the reader, fince it 

 contains an opinion of univerfal medical 

 importance, from one of the moft difcern- 

 ing phyficians which perhaps the world 

 has produced. It relates to, by him, fup- 

 pofed pernicious effect of too free indul- 

 gence in that moft agreeable of all the arti- 

 ficial taftes, the love of fait with our food. 

 The transformation of the Ocymum Sa- 

 linum brought to the Poet's memory the 

 unfortunate wife of Lot, whofe ftory is 



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