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and cryftal ftream. A few foft rays, gleam-- 

 ing from above, filvered over the furface, and 

 exhibited all the purity of this limpid cur- 

 rent, conveying, amidft fome fimilifudes of 

 fituation and of fcene, precifely the reverfe of 

 the difmal waters of Acheron, which are re- 

 prefented by the poets as wandering in the 

 gloomy dark, where 



Above no iky Is feen ; below 

 A turbid wave is feen to flow. 



But here the fky did appear above, for It 

 Was feen at a circular opening, cut through the 

 foil and the folid rock, to the depth of thirty 

 or forty fathoms, and refembled the pale moon, 

 or the brighter orb of day, divefted of his 

 fiery rednefs, and his golden beams. The 

 wave, too, was any thing but turbid ; indeed, 

 it was fo invitingly clear and pure, that we 

 were tempted to drink of its limpid ftream. 



Together with our artificial lights, the 

 mild rays from the opening above, pene- 

 trating to the very bottom of the cave, dif- 

 played the hanging tubes of ftalaSites, and the 

 various furrounding petrifadions, in a pecu- 

 liarly interefting and roo?-antic manner ; 



