MEMOIRS OF 



ribs of ice, burfting with the noife of loud- 

 eft thunder. Then is fhown the vernal 

 difiblution of this fcene, beneath the rifmg 

 of the pale, frx-months day ; and the Muf- 

 chus, Coral-Mofs, in the form of an Arcliic- 

 regioned lover, awakens his Fair One, and 

 defcribes the fymptoms of returning Spring. 

 The lake and fea-plant, -5ga, Conferva 

 ^Egagropila, is next introduced by thi* 

 beautiful line, 



Night's tinfel beams on fmooth Locti-Lomond dance, 



Where the charms of poetic found are felt, 

 tliat is one of the lines which, after perufaf, 

 takes poffeffion of the memory, and lingers 

 on the ear. We are tolcf, in a note, that 

 this vegetable is found loofe in. many lakes-; 

 that it is of a globular form, from the fize 

 of a walnut to that of a melo-n ; does not 

 adhere to any thing, but rolls from one part 

 of the lake to the other. HCTQ it becomes a 

 fair maid, fitting en the banks .of Loch- 

 Lomond, 



