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tiniially furround and follow us over the burning 
delart ridges and plains, and here are in fome hopes 
of momentary peace and quietnefs, under cover 
of the cool humid groves, we are furprized and 
quickly invefted with dark clouds of thefe perfe- 
cting demons, befides mufquitoes and gnats (cu~ 
lex et cynips). 
The next day, being in like manner opprefled and 
haraffed by the flinging hies and heats, we halted 
at noon, being unable longer to fupport ourlelves 
under fuch grievances, even in our prefent fituation 
charming to the fcnfes, on the acclivky of a. high 
{welling ridge planted with open airy groves of the 
fuperb tere bin thine Pines, glittering rills playing 
beneath, and pellucid brooks meandering through 
an expanfive green favanna, their banks orna- 
mented with coppices of blooming aromatic fhrubs 
and plants perfuming the air. The meridian heats 
juft allayed, the fun is veiled in a dark cloud, rifing 
North- Weft ward j the air ftill, gloomy and fultry; 
the animal fpirits fink under the conflidt, and we 
fall into a kind of mortal torpor rather than re- 
frefhing repofe ; and ftartled or terrified at each 
others plaintive murmurs and groans. Now the 
• earth trembles under the peals of inceftant diftant 
thunder, the hurricane comes on roaring, and I 
am fhocked again to life : I raife my head and rub 
open my eyes, pained with gleams and flalhes of 
lightning; when juft attempting to wake my af- 
flidled brethren and companions, aimoft over- 
whelmed with floods of rain, the dark cloud opens 
over my head, developing a vaft river of the ethe- 
rial fire ; I am inftantly ftruck dumb, inadtive and 
benumbed ; at length the piilfe of life begins to 
vibrate, the animal fpirits begin to exert their 
powers, and I am by degrees revived. 
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