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tering with dew, cannot but be struck with the elegant 
propriety of the name.” But it is not confined to such 
situations, though it may prefer them; for Bacon speaks 
of heaths of rosemary, which, he says, “ will smell a 
great way in the sea, perhaps twenty miles.” 
This statement is corroborated by later travellers, 
who mention its growing, along with lavender, in the 
Great Desert; which circumstance explains the following 
passage in the sweet ode above alluded to: — 
“ And throw across the desert gloom 
A sweet decaying smell.” 
And also these lines, by a celebrated living author: — 
-“ The humble rosemary. 
Whose sweets so thanklessly are shed 
To scent the desert and the dead.” 
Several ancient authors have alluded to the rosemary. 
“ From its smelling like incense, they termed it Liba- 
notis; and Coronarius, on account of its being used in 
garlands. Among our own bards, Shakspeare, who 
immortalises every flower he names, under the suppo¬ 
sition, which in his time generally prevailed, that it 
