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Show [ 9~ J Sad Superfl:ition wails her empire torn, 375' Art plies his oar, and Cmnmercc pou!·s her horn ... " Long had the Giant-form on GALLrA's plaiiu· Inglorious :flept, unconfcious ·of his chains ; Round his large limbs were wound a thoufand firings By the weak hands of Confeffors and Kings ; 3 So· 0' er his clofed eyes a triple veil was bound, And freely rivets lock' d hi-1n to the ground ; While fl:ern Bafiile with iron cage inthralls His folded limbs, and hems in marble walls. -Touch' d by the patriot-flame, he rent amazed 3 8 5 The Rimfy bonds, and round and round hitn gazed ; Whi!cjlern Ba.fiile. l. 383. "We defcended v..-i th great diffi-culty into the dunocons . which were made teo low for our fiand ing upright; and were fo -dark, that w: wer; obliged at noon-day to vifit them by the light of a candle. W e faw the hooks cf tho fe chains, by which the prifoners were fa!1 ened by their necks to the walls of their cells · many of .whi~l: being be~w the level of the water were in a confl:a nt fl:ate of humidity ~ f~om wh1ch Iflued a noxious vapour, which more than once cxt inguifhed the candl es. Smce the dcfl:ru Cl ion of the build ing many fu bterraueous cells have been difcovered under a piece of ground, which feemed only a hank of folid ea rth before the horrid fec rets o~ this pri fon-houfe were di fclofed. Some fkeletons were found in thefe receffes with irons fi1ll faftened to their decayed bones." Letters from France by r·J M w·lr· • , ~. . • 1 1ams. P.· 2+" ( 93 ] Starts up from earth, above the admiring throng. Lifts his Coloifal form, and towers along ; High o'er his foes his hundred arms He rears, Plowfh ares h is f words, and pruning hooks his fpears; 3 9o· Calls to the Good and Brave with voice, that rolls Like Heaven's own thunder round the echoing poles ; Gives to the winds his banner broad unfurl' d, And gathers in its !hade the living wo:ld t VIII. " GNoMES! vou then taught Volcanic Airs to force Through bubbling Lavas their re:G.fl:lefs courfe, 3 96 0' er the broad walls of rifted Granite climb, And pierce the rent roof of incumbent Lime, A d · th 1 roo'" 1 398 T he granite rocks and the limefl:one rocks have been Jln puree e rcn 'J • • • • cracked to very great depths at the time they were raifed. up by fubterrancan fires ; m the fe cracks are fou nd mufl: of 1! .e met :1 llic ores, except ~ron and perhaps manganefe,_ I r f 1 1 ·1ch ·1s 0 , nerally found in horizontal firata, and the latter generally near t 1C IOT111Cr 0 W • :::,'- ' the furface of the earth. . h t P hi lofophers poffefTi ng fo convenient a tefl: for the difcovery of uon by t e magne' ha ve lono- flncc found it in all vegetable and animal matters ; and of late Mr. ScheeSle hkas o . bl fl S-h ele 5-6 mem. toe • difcovered the exif1:ence of manganefe 111 vcgeta e a 1es. L . e ' ~ fi f · I"· , l\II" n 353 vVhi ch accounts for the producb on of 1t near the ur ace 177 4-· ~ mv,\n. 1 • • • • • 1 · B r manh a~ ofthcearth <!mlthcncefori tscalciformappearancc, orunJOnwlth vita air. e g . d ' · Hkcwife {hewn, that the hmeil:ones whK· 1 b bl · fl d k coloured when cakme , , 1 ecome u1 l or ar |
