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channel of the river ; and from that eminence 

 obferved from the dimphng of the waters, 

 where fome poor, wandering iifh had gotten 

 itfelf entangled in the fhallows, whom he 

 marked for certain deftrudtion. 



But thefe are not the only birds, which 

 inliven a voyage up Beaulieu-river. In the 

 lines I have juft quoted from Virgil's de- 

 fcription of ^neas's entrance into the Tyber 

 (the whole of which might ferve with very 

 little alteration for a defcription alfo of Beau- 

 lieu-river) two kinds of birds are introduced ; 



thofe, which difport themfelves i?i flu- 



?nmis aheo j and thofe, which cethera mulcebant 

 cajitUy lucoqtie volabant. With the actions of 

 the former of thefe we have already been 

 entertained : but we have not yet liftened to 

 the mufic of the latter. I have been told 

 it is extraordinary ; and that all thefe woods, 

 on both fides of the river (fo extenfive are 

 they, and unmolefted) are filled with fuch 

 innumerable flights of finging birds, that to 

 fail up the river in a morning, or an evening 

 in the fpring, affords, in Virgil's language, 

 an avium concentus, hardly any where elfe to be 

 found. The nightingale, the thrufh, the 

 blackbird, and the linnet are the chief per- 

 formers 



