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Solftice, and the poifonous breath of the 

 Harmattan, the only gale that flits over 

 the tawny hills. Gafping panthers arc 

 rolling in the duft, and dying ferpents are 

 writhing in foamy folds; the woods on 

 Atlas, blafted by the heats, and the waters 

 of the Gambia ilirinking in their channels ; 

 Ocean rolling to land his ilck flioals, and 

 Contagion (talking along the fhore. Amid 

 the fultry wafte rifes the graceful nymph, 

 Chunda, with her brow unturbaned, and 

 with loofened zone. Her ten lovers are 

 employed in mitigating for their fajr mif- 

 trefs the ardors of the climate, with the 

 umbrella and the fan. 



Of equal excellence, a Greenland picture 

 contracts, in the utmoft poffible extreme, 

 the preceding landfcape. A da) lefs horizon, 

 {Ireaming with the milky light of the 

 Aurora Borealis, and all the white moun- 

 tains gleaming to the moon ; Bears {talk- 

 ing ^flpwly over the printed fnows ; and vaft 

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