CHAPTER XXVI. 



A DESCRIPTION OF BIIADERPOOR; 

 THE CULTIVATION AND FOREST SCENERY IN THAT 



purgunna; 



AND THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ITS INHABITANTS. 



1781. 



Far as Creation's ample range extends, 

 The scale of sensual, mental, powers ascends; 

 Mark how it mounts to Man's imperial race, 

 From the green myriads in the peopled grass ; 

 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme 

 The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ! 

 Or smell, the headlong lioness between 

 And hound sagacious on the tainted green! 

 Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 

 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! 

 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! 

 Feels at each thread, and lives along the line ' 

 In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, 

 From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 

 How instinct varies in the groveling swine, 

 Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine ! Pope 



