MEMOIRS OF 



cafe, to her alfo would have been refigncd 

 the floral car and it's gay defcent, and a 

 vehicle of graver magnificence fupplied it's 

 place to the " Mighty mother/' immortal 

 Nature. Nymph, or Goddefs of Botany, 

 implies empire only over the vegetable part 

 of creation ; while, in the Economy of 

 Vegetation, flie prefides over the aftrono- 

 mic, eleftric, aerial, and mineralogic pro- 

 perties. Into fo wide a field has the union 

 of Philofophy with Poetry conducted this 

 daring Bard. The light of his imagina- 

 tion will fhine with increafing luftre in the 

 eyes of future generations, fo long as dif- 

 cerning Tafte fhall be the Veftal to watch 

 and fuppiort it's fires. 



Nor let it once be thought that any 

 error in Dr. Darwin's poetic fyftem ; any 

 occafional deviation from perfection in the 

 plan, arrangement, or execution of this his 

 complicated work, ought to prevent it's 

 facing confidered as one of the richeft ef- 



fufions 



