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Show [ r8 ] So to the facred Sun in MEMNoN's fane, Spontaneous concords quired the matin firain ; --Touch'd by his orient bea1n, refponiive rings The l-iving lyre, and vibrates all its firings ; Accordant ailes the tender tones prolong, And holy echoes [well the adoring fong. " You with light Gas the lamps noCturnal feed, Which dance and glimmer o'er the mari11y mead ; I 90 cold to the ~un's light. It may be thus well imitated; Calcine oyfl:er-!hells half an hour, pulv_enze them whe~ cold, and add one third part of flowers of fulphur, prefs them clo_fe mto ~ fmall cructble, and calcine them for an hour or longer, and keep the powder m a phta! clofe fiopped. A part of this powder is to be expofed for a minute or two to the funbeams, and then brought into a dark room. The calcined Bolognian fione ~ecome~ a calcareous hepar of fulphur; but the calcined fhells, as they contain the anunal actd, may alfo contain fome of the phofphorus of Kunkel. In Memnon'sfane. I. 183. See additional notes, No. VIII. The lamps noEiurn~l. !. 189. The ignis fatuus or Jack a lantern fo fre uentl a:ludecl to by poets, IS fuppofed to originate from the inflammable air' or H d q cr y giVen up from moraffes; which being of a heavier kind f . . ' . y rooene, obtained from iron and water, hovers near the furface of tl;:m Its ltnpuw~ ~han tl~at common air gives out light by its flow ignition. Perha ~ h ~~rth, and unttlll~ With and the refleCtion of a ftar on wate d ps uc tghts have no exJfl:ence, ry groun may have deceived th 11 have been faid to be bewildered by th em,. 1"f t h e f acr wasefiabl"fh dc ·t rave ers, who contribute to explain the phenomena f h 1. ' 1 . o nort ern tghts I h c 11 t would much lll~ht, in all feafons of the year, and over all kinds of. . ave trave led much in the Wlll o'wifps. fOJl, but never faw one uf thefe ( I9 ) Shine round Calendula at twilight hours, And tip with filver all her faffron Bowers ; W ann on her moify couch the radiant Worm, Guard fro1n cold dews her love-illumin' d form From leaf to leaf conduct the virgin light, Star of the earth, and diamond of the night. You bid in air the tropic Beetle burn, And fill with golden Ba1ne his winged urn ; , Or gild the furge with infeCl:-fparks, that fwarm 1 95 Round the bright oar, the kindling prow alarm; 200 Or arm in waves, eleCtric in his ire, The dread Gymnotus with etherial fire.Onward his courfe ·with waving tail he helms, And mitnic lightenings [care the watery realms. Shine round Calendula. I. 191. See note on Tropa:olum in Vol. II. The radiant Worm. I. I93· See additional notes, No. IX. %e dread Gymnotus. I. 202. The Gymnotus eleClricus is a native of the river of Surinam in South America; thofe which were brought over to England about eight years ago were about three or four feet long, and gave an cletl:ric !hock (as I experienced) by putting one finger on the back ncar its head, a.nd another of the oppoGte hand into the water near its tail. In their native country they are faid to exceed twenty feet in length |