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flumbcrs away her life on a downy couch. 

 She is betrothed to a Sylph. Her awak- 

 ening is compared to that of the infect in 

 a nut, and to a young linnet on the in- 

 ftant of it's firft flight from the neft. 

 Caprifica ftrikes a talifman, and her airy 

 hufband flies to her on the wings of a gnat. 

 This flight is painted with la vim play of 

 fancy ; it's fwiftnefs is compared to that 

 of the electric aura ; it's impatient con-- 

 ftancy to that of the- polar needle. The 

 Byflus of the northern fhores, which floats 

 on their feas by day, and is found in their 

 caverns, we fee ufliered to our notice by a "* 

 fublime poetic picture of Fingall's Cave, of 

 which Pennant's Tour to the Ht-brides 

 contains an engraving. The male and fe- 

 male of this vegetable become a Youth and 

 Maid of thofe regions, purfuing their amo- 

 rous voyage by night, in a boat with green 

 fails, and lighted to their cave by the ftar 

 9f Venus. 



Conferva, 



