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ANTIPODES. 
at this time by the sweetness and pathos of her tones. She was the 
original singer of Black-eyed Susan, and one or two songs which were 
afterwards introduced into the Beggar’s Opera. But her recommen- 
dation to particular notice was the circumstance of her for many 
years being the object of Lord Bolingbroke’s enthusiastic affection. 
The poor girl strayed for some time, during which his lordship had 
not seen her : and it was after that interval, that, having met her, he 
addressed to her the tender lines, beginning, 
” Dear thoughtless Clara, to my verse attend. 
Believe for once the lover and the friend.” 
And concluding thus, 
“To virtue thus, and to thyself restored. 
By all admired, by one alone adored ; 
Be to thy Harry ever Lind and true. 
And live for him who more than died for you. 
A series of calamities totally ruined her vocal powers, and she 
afterwards subsisted by the sale of oranges at the Court of Requests. 
The profession did not continue to maintain its rank. The disap- 
pointed author in Roderic Random, who set about writing for the 
ballad-singers, was introduced into one of their assemblies. His 
testimony establishes the deepest degeneracy in the members of the 
order. Indeed, the history of ballad-singing, during the remainder of 
the last century, affords but an unsatisfactory subject of reflection to > 
the lovers of song. 
Antipodes. 
The! Antipodes are those people who, living on the other side of 
the globe, have their feet directly opposite to ours. Plato is esteemed 
the first who thought it possible that Antipodes existed, and is looked 
upon as the inventor of the word. As this philosopher apprehended 
th e earth to be spherical, he had only one step to make, to conclude 
the existence of Antipodes. The ancients, in general, treated this 
opinion with the highest contempt. Lactantius and Augustine laughed 
at tlie notion of Antipodes; the latter of these fathers was perplexed 
to think how men should hang pendulous in the air, with their feet 
uppermost, as he thought they must do in the other hemisphere ; 
and Boniface, archbishop of Mentz, and legate of pope Zachary in 
the eighth century, declared a bishop of that time, called Vigilius, a 
heretic, for maintaining that there were such beings as Antipodes. 
But the Christian fathers were not the only persons who disputed 
the truth of the Antipodes. Lucretius had done it before them, at 
the end of his first book, v. 1063, &c. See also Plutarch, lib. De facie 
in orbe Lucinae ; and Pliny, who refutes the opinion, lib. ii. cap. 5, 
They never reflected that these terms upwards and downwards are 
merely relative ; and signify only nearer to, or farther from, the centre 
of the earth, the common centre to which all heavy bodies gravitate ; 
and that, therefore, our Antipodes have not their feet upwards and 
heads downwards, any more than ourselves ; for theyj as well as we, 
have their feet nearest the centre of the earth, and their heads farthest 
