266 HELIOTROPES. 



Imagination cannot paint the scene that ensued ; 

 the expressions that fear, rage, and revenge 

 inspired, were new, or at least such as had been 

 unnoticed before. The exasperated matrons up- 

 braided, they execrated, they insulted, they tri- 

 umphed. In a word, they never desisted from 

 buffeting their adversary till they had torn him in 

 a hundred pieces. 



XLIV. 



" Monstrent 



Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles 

 Hyberni ; vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet." 



GENTLEMEN who have outlets might contrive 

 to make ornament subservient to utility ; a pleas- 

 ing eye -trap might also contribute to promote 

 science ; an obelisk in a garden or park might be 

 both an embellishment and an heliotrope. 



Any person that is curious, and enjoys the 

 advantage of a good horizon, might, with little 

 trouble, make two heliotropes, the one for the 

 winter, the other for the summer solstice ; and 

 these two erections might be constructed with 

 very little expense, for two pieces of timber frame- 

 work, about ten or twelve feet high, and four feet 

 broad at the base, and close lined with plank, 

 would answer the purpose. 



The erection for the former should, if possible, 

 be placed within sight of some window in the 

 common sitting parlour; because men, at that 

 dead season of the year, are usually within doors 

 at the close of the day ; while that for the latter 

 might be fixed for any given spot in the garden 

 or outlet, whence the owner might contemplate, 

 in a fine summer's evening, the utmost extent 

 that the sun makes to the northward at the 



