214 Cotncidencies in Genests and Gos tfctamorphoses. [April 1, 
happiness in which the scriptures repre- 
sent our first progenitors to have lived in 
Paradise : ete, 
6¢ Aurea prima sata est ztas, que, vindice 
nullo, Ne a 
Sponte sua, sine lege, fidem rectumque 
colebat, 
Pena metusque aberant, &c. ’ 
Ov. Met. 1, 88, et seq. 
The fall of man, and the consequent 
wickedness of the human race, are like- 
wise designated with great perspicuity 
in the poet’s iron age: ~ 
«¢ De duro est ultima ferro. 
Protinus irrupit venz pejorisin evum 
Omne nefas: fugere pudor, verumque fides- 
que.” Ow. Met. 1127, et'seq. 
«There were giants in the earth in 
those days.” Gen. vi. 4. ; 
“ And they said; go to, let us build a 
city and a tower, whose top may reach 
unto heaven.” Gen. x1. 4. ! 
«¢ Affectasse ferunt regnum celeste gigantas, 
Altaque congestos struxisse ad sidera mon- 
t25.7" Ow. Met.i1, 1525155. 
Again; “ And God saw that the wick- 
edness of man wasgreat in the earth, and 
that every imagination of the thoughts of 
his heart was only evil continually.” 
Gen. vi. 5. , 
—— ‘* Qua terra patet, fera regnat Erinnys : 
In facinus jurasse putes.” 
Ov, Met. 1, 241, 242. 
Again; “And behold I, even I, do 
bring a flood ef waters upon the earth, to 
destroy all fiesh, wherein is the breath 
of life from under heaven; and every 
thing that is in the earth shall die.” 
Gen. vi. 7. 
s= Pena placet diversa, genus mortale sub 
undis 
Perdere, et ex omni nimbos dimittere celo.”’ 
Ov. Met. 1, 260, 261. 
Again; ‘And the Lord said unto 
Noah, come thou and ali thy house into 
the ark; for thee have I seen righteous 
before me in this generation.” Gen. vii. 1. 
_ Thus the poet, speaking of Deucalion, 
and his wife Pyrrha, says, 
6€ Non ‘illo melior quisquam, nec amantior 
aqui 
Vir fuit, aut illa metuentior ulla deorum.” 
Ov. Met. 1, 322, 393, 
- Again; “ And Noah went in, and his 
sons, and his wife, and bis son’s wives 
with him, into the ark, because of the 
waters of the flood.” Gen. vil. 7: 
“And the ark rested in the seventh 
month, on the seventeenth day of the | 
month, upon the mountains of Ararat,” 
Gen. Vil. 4, . 
- oo, 
“Se 
“‘ Mons ibi verticibus petit arduus. astra 
duobus, 
Nomine Parnassus, superatques cacumine 
nubes : . 
Hic ubi Deucalion (nam cetera texerat: 
zequor) % 
Cum consorte tori parva rate vectus adhasit.” 
Ov. Met. 1, 316, et seqs 
Again; “ And Noah builded an altar 
unto the Lord, and took-of every clean 
beast, and. of every clean’ fowl, and 
offered burnt offerings on the altar.” 
Gen. vili. 20. . 
——— ** Flectunt vestizia sanct= oy 
Ad delubra Dew.” ' Ov. Met. 1, 372, et seq? 
———‘ Procumbit uterque 
Pronus humi.” Ov. Met. 1, 375, et seq. 
‘* Atque ita, si precibus, dixerunt, numina~ 
justis 
Victa remollescunt, si flectitur ira deorum.” 
Ov. Met. 1, 377, et seq. 
Without adding any comments on the 
above-extracts, I shall just request per- 
mission to close this communication with 
a sentence of Ovid, concerning the final 
destruction of the world, which is closely 
connected withsome already quoted, and 
which is jn strict consonance with the 
belief of Christians, both as to the certain 
fature occurrence of that event, and also | 
as to the element which is destined to ae= 
‘ complish it: 
‘¢ Esse quoque in’ fatis reminiscitur, affose 
tempus, 
Quo mare, quo tellus, correptague regia 
celi rie 
Ardeat, Ov. Met. 1, 256, et seq. 
Your's, &c. 
Hanslope, W. SINGLETON. 
Feb. 14, 1809. | 
a Pea 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
A Correspondent, who signs himself 
‘a Native of Totnes,” has lately . 
amused us all here (Totnes); by his ob- 
servations, in your valuable Magazine of 
January last, on Mr. Windeatt’s. ingeni- 
ous communication respecting the -his- 
tory and present state of our place. Our 
town, it is true, is but alittle one, and 
our numbers but few, and though we may 
resemble the smallness, as well as (par-. 
don a little local vanity) the beauty of 
poor Anna Bullen’s neck, yet wedo not 
possess a suficicnt quantity of her philo- 
sophy, calmly to submit to the unmerited . 
stroke of your anonymous Correspondent, 
These papers have afforded us much mat=" 
ter for harmless discussion, and there are 
some who have no doubt reason to bless 
the writers, even were it only that they 
have postponed the fate of many a cha- 
racter, 
