is much diminished of late years; and they now fcarcely amount to two hundred. Thofe Catholic families, that were here in the time of Tournefort, have fince joined the Greek Church. This ifland is celebrated for the earth known by the name of Cimolia terra; which, according to the ancients, was ef ficacious in St. Anthony's-fire, inflamma tions, and other external affections; be ing applied by way of cataplafm. They alfo ufed it for bleaching linen and cleaning of cloaths. This earth, though long difregarded, and fuppofed to be Toft, is however till very plentiful in Argentiera, Siphanto, Milo, and other of those islands; and is a marle of a lax and friable texture, of a pure bright white colour, and foft to the touch. It is evidently the fame fubitance that is found in the county of Cornwall, and which we call Steatites, or the Soap-rock. The BRITISH MUSE: Containing Original POEMS, SONGS, &. wave A NEW SONG. Sung at Vauxhall, by Mrs. WRIGHTEN. T O near the jar of noify war To me is pleasing matter; Give re, ye Powis, in dangerous hours, A tprar an fhied to clatter: If this fupply ve thal deny, Yet grans me hit and feather, I'll then rockel, for fure there's need, Advance in faireft weather- If * these I lofe, I'll not refuse To leave the ftrife to others; To those who dread no lofs of head, Ant knock hem down together; Now flaming o'er the Nubian fands, To mark where first thou court'ft the gale, The wonders which hy depths unfold. Here, as the joyless wild we trace, Now, lurking on thy fedgy shores, The Crocodile bis prey explores. Hark! 'tis a virgin's fhriek -thy flood Now Death affumes his grimmeft form, Now bear me down thy western arm, As ne'er Alcinous gardens knew; And thou fam`du stream! what tho ne more The world's emporium as of yore; A Pharaoh's daughter erft was thine, A Prolemy of learn'd renown, And great Sefoftris wore thy crown; Thine, Memphis! cruth'd by adverfe fates, And Thehes-that op'd an hundred gates! Pointing to the head. This alludes to a circumftan e which happened juft before the author came to the Nile, when, at the d-a h of a crocodile, they found in its belly the gold rings and ornaments of a girl, who had been devoured by the monfer a short time before, as the was bathing in the liver. And Sull rife, full-fwelling on my foften'd foul; For which unheard I heave the bursting figh, While down my cheeks the briny torrents roll. And canft thou afk if yet the facred flame, By virtue cherish'd, kept alive by truth, Pervades unrival'd your ALEXIS' frame, Whose vows were thine, confirm'd in early youth? O'er all the human race his pow'r extends, Is yet THY heart with equal warmth in His debt, as Nature's fons, we all must fpir'd? Couldt THOU, as once, thy faithful fhepherd prefs, By that ineffable delight infpir'd, Which gives to each the heav'nly pow'r Glory, indeed, has call'd my youth to arms, To foothe my foul befides, or give me Encamp'd on these savannahs as I lie, Thy form in ev'ry changing cloud I fee, Thy breath I feel when murm ring zephyrs figh, Tho' furges rife between my hopes and me. My pipe, my lyre, to foothe my mind I chufe ; To wars, to triumphs I attune my fong: My pipe, my lyre, the lofty founds refule, To Love and AURA they the trains prolong. The fifty daughters of Danaus, according to fabulous hiftory, were all married in one day, and all, except one, allaffinated their husbands on the wedding-night, as a punishment for which, they were fentenced, in the infernal regions, to fill with water a tub full of holes. ↑ Sifyphus was condemned to the inceffant labour of rolling a fone of enormous fize to the top of a mountain, from whence it immediately returned with great force. |