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‘ration is derived from a pa(lage in book 
iii. of Diodorus Siculus, which I for- 
merly quoted in my Notes on Gray's 
Spring, and fhall therefore decline trant- 
ferring hither. So Waller, in his Nig4- 
Piece: : 
So we th’ Arabian coaft do know 
At diftance, when the fpices blow 5 
By the rich odour taught to fteer, 
Though neither day nor ftars appear. 
How fiom that faphir fount the crifsed brooks, 
Rolling on oriént pearl and fands of gold. 
Verst37. 
You nymphs, call’d Nayads, of the winding 
brooks, 
With yoyr fedg’d crowns and ever-harmle(s 
looks, 
Leave your cri/fz channels. 
Weaver's Funeral Monuments, p. 
202—Precious Stones, and great Orient 
Pearles. 
TEMPEST, lv. 3- 
unite their ftreams. 
The birds their quire apply: airs, vernal airs, 
Breathing the fmell o: held and grove, attune 
The trembliny leaves. 


The graffie ground with daintie daifies dight ; 
The bramble bufh, where ¢irds of every kind, 
To th’ water’s fall their tunes artemper right. 
SPENCER, Eclog. vi. 8. 
—— coy fubmiffion, modeit pride. Ver. 310. 
rigiai fed plena [udoris 
Ejucet gravitas fa/tu jucunda modcfta. 
CLauDIAN, xvil. 246, 
And fweet relu€@tant amorous delay. Ver, 31]: 
Creicunt difficili gaudia jurgio, 
Accenditque magis, quz iefugit, Venus; 
Quod flenti tuleris, plus fapit ofculum. 
CLAUDIAN, Xiv. IF, 
Ver. 314. 
SOPHOCLES, 

— honour difhonourable, 
mm doy adweov. 
Adam, the goodlieft man of men fince born, 
His fons. Wer. $25. 
ante alios pulcherrimus omnes 
VirGit, EN, vil. 55. 
bears, tygers, oudces, pards, 
Gamboli’d before them: th’ unwieldy elephant 
To make them mirth, us’d all his might. 
~ Ver. 344. 
arahnr: Oe unre’ UT autw 
\Mayrodey ex xev8pwy, 2d? nyvoinss avout. 
Homes, It. N, 27. 

‘Turnus, 


From ver. soz, through the whole of 
this circumftance of the transformation 
and its dependencies, our countryman 
is greatly indebted to the poem of Alci- 
mus Avitus, on the fame tubjeét, lib. ii, 
ver. 77, and the following: much’ too 
- long for tranfeription hither. 
' And thefe the gems of heav’n, her ftarry train: 
Ver. 649. 
Wot this round feav’x, which we from hence 
behold, . 
Imitations from the Ancients in Milton. 
Ver. 265.- 
249 
Adorn’d with thoufand lamps of burning light, 
And with ten thoufand gemmes of fhining gold. 
SPENCER’s Hymn of Heavenly Love, ft: g, 
Celeitial yoices to the midnight air,— 
Singing their great Creator. Ver. 682, 
Hinc alta tub rupe camer trondator ad auras. 
VirGiL, Ecl.i. 57. 
Beit, bird, infeét, or worm, durft enter none. 
Ver. 7046 
evOev 6 x weG 


aye 4 ‘ 
Tep@» wds oi pny xeyorprevoy EsdsiOuing 
“Epreroy, ude yuvn emyiecetau. 
CaLiimacuus, Hymn Jup. 12, 
Here Love 

waves his purple wings. 
. Ver, 764, 
Nataque Aurfureus tela refumit Amor. 
Ovip, Am. il. 9. 34, 
On vother fide Satan alarm’d 
Colleéting all his might dilated ftood :—~ 
His ftature reach’d the fky. Ver. 985, 
This is very clofely delineated from 
Callimachus, Hymn. Ber. 58. 

Aapwotne © abasoy ct naTETTNTO, yetieero Ont 
Fuss 
Wyrcere pre¥ y t97Wy xedore de of aba” OdujaTW. 
-—— ted pectus anhelum, 
Et rabie fera corda tument : mayorque videri, 
Nec mortale fonans VIRGIL, DN. Vi. 4g. 
mjorem furgere in arma, 
Majoremque dedit cerni Tirynthius : alte 


ee 
_Scintillant criftze 5; et, mirum! velocibus ingens. 
Per fubitum membris venit viger. 
Srr1us Iraticus, vii. §91. 
[To be continued. | 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
N addition to the two teftimonies given 
by G. W. in your lait Magazine, p. 
167, of toads found in cavities of ftones, 
I defire to offer you the foliowing : 
During the repairs of the parifh 
church of Finchley, in Middletex, I ve- 
lieve about 15. years fince, the mafons, | 
in removing the coping ftone of a but- 
trefs, which ftood at the fide of the 
church wall, by accident broke it in 
half, and to their aftonifhment difcover- 
ed, in the middle of it. a large toad fit- 
ting. They carefully examined the ftone, 
without being able to find any former 
junction, or any aperture, by which this 
animal could have crept in, and were 
well fatisfied, that the ftone was entirely 
folid. I was, at that time, intimately 
acquainted with Dr. Samuer Carr, 
the late re¢tor of the parifh, who was 
refident upon his living, at the period 
above-mentioned, and who gave me this 
account himfelf. 
Of .27;, 3797. A. H, 
Kk E For 
