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Vorticibus rapidis, et multa flavus arena, 

 In mare prorumpit. Varias circumque, fupraque, 

 AfTuetae ripis volucres, et fluminis alveo 

 yEthera mulcebant cantu, lucoqiie volabant. 



Again 

 Ceu quondam nivei liquida inter nubila cygni, 

 Cum fefe e paftu referunt, et longa canoros 



Dant per colla modos, fonat amnis 



And acrain 



■ " Pifcofo amne Padufae 



Dant fonitum ranci per ftagna loquacia cygni. 



On fuch claflical authority we admire 

 the flights of fea-gulls, as a proper ornament 

 in a fcene like this. It was amuling to ob- 

 ferve, how quickly they difcovered the re- 

 linquifhed fliore, long before it was difcoverable 

 by us ', and to fee them running in appearance 

 on the furface of the water. For tho the tide 

 had in thofe parts left the land ; yet the mu4 

 from it's perfed: flatnefs long retained it's 

 glazed, and watry appearance. — The cormorant 

 alfo fat watching the ebbing tide : but he 

 feemed bent on matters of greater importance. 

 He did not, like the idle gull, wheel round 

 the air ; nor pace about the ebbing fhore, 

 mixing bufmefs and amufement together. 

 With eager attention he took his ftand on 

 fome folitary poll, fet up to point the 



channel 



