354 DEFILE OF TEMPE. 
CHAT, view of Olympus engrossed our particular 
^ attention^ owing to the prodigious grandeur 
into which its vast masses were disposed. We 
had never beheld a scene of bolder outline ; for 
the only diminutive objects in this grand pro- 
spect were the distant herds of cattle, grazing ia 
detached groupes upon the plain in the fore- 
ground'. All the rest consisted of parts of 
such magnitude, that, in their contemplation* 
animated nature is forgotten ^* we think only 
(1) The sketch which the author made of this scene, as a memoraD- 
dum, lias been considered a faithful representation by other travellers f 
and therefore it has been engraved for the Plate annexed to Vol. IV. rf 
the Quarto Edition of these Travels, facing p. 277. It will serve U> 
shew the reader the natare of this higbly-poetie land. The form of 
w? Oii/mjms, and the undulating line presented by its " many tops," has. 
been accurately taken. 
(2) Tliis feeling is finely expressed by Cumberland. The poet fe 
described as viewing the prospect from the summit of S/eiddaw, in Cum- 
berland. 
«' Now downward as I bend my eye, 
What is that atom I espy, 
Tliat speck in Nature's plan ?(— 
Great heaven ! is that a man ? 
And hath that little wretch its cares. 
Its freaks, its follies, and its airs ? 
And do I hear the insect say, 
* My lakes, my mountains, my domain?' 
O weak, contemptible, and vain! 
The tenant of a day. 
Say to old Skiddaiv, ' Change tliy place, 
Heave HelvcUyn from his base. 
Or bid impetuous Derwent stand 
At the proud waving of a master's hand." 
Sec HtUchtHson's Hist, qf Cumberland, ybl. II. p. \68, Carlisle, l794> 
