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Show ( 130 ] Deep in warm waves, and pebbly baths lhe dwells, And ca1ls H YGEIA to her fainted wells. " Hither in fportive bands bright DEVON leads Graces and Loves from Chatfworth's Bowery meads. I 70 Charm' d round the NYMPH, they climb the rifted rocks; And fl:eep in tnountain-mif\: their golden locks; On venturous fl:ep her fparry caves explore, And light with radiant eyes her realms of ore ; -Oft by her bu~bling founts, and ihadowy domes, 17 5 In gay undrefs the fairy legion roa~s, Their dripping palms in playful malice fill, Or tafl:e with ruby lip the fparkling rill; Croud round her baths ' and, bending ?'er the fide, Unclafp'd their fandals, and their zones untied, 1 8o Dip with gay fear the fhuddering foot undrefs' d, And quick retract it to the fringed vefl:; fi{fnres of t~e moun ta ins from great depths, owing to water falling on fubterraneous fires and that this iteam is 1 cl d · ~ · condeufed between the fl:rata of the incumb en t mountam. s an d co 1_; f~ e ~nto 0rnn~s . . For fu~th~r proofs on this fubjeCl the reader is referred to a Letter •om r. arwm m Mr. Pllkwgton's View of Derbyihire Vol I 6 ' · · P· 25 • [ 131 ) Or cleave with brandi{h' d arms the lucid fiream ' And fob, their blue eyes twinkling in the fl:eam. -High o'er the chequer'd V'!ult with tranfient glow 185 Bright lufl:res dart, as dafh the waves below; And Echo's fweet refponfive voice prolongs The dulcet tumult of their :Giver tongues.- 0' er their Rufh' d cheeks uncurling treffes Row, And dew-drops glitter on their necks of fnow; Round each fair Nymph her dropping mantle dings, And Loves emerging ibake their ihowery wings. And fob, thtir hlut eyts. 1. 184. The bath at Buxton being of 82 degrees of heat is called a warm bath, and is fo compared with common fpring- water which poffeffes but -48 degrees of heat, but is neverthdefs a cold bath compared to the heat of the body which is 98. On going into this bath there is therefore always a chill perceived at the firfl: immerfi on, but after having been in it a minute the chill ceafes and a fenfation of warmth fncc eeds though the body continues to be immerfed in the water. T he caufe of this curious phenomenon is to be looked for in the laws of an imal fenfation and not from any propert ies of heat. When a perfon goes from clear day- light into an obfcu re room for a while it appears gloomy, which gloom however in a little time ceafes, and the def1ciency of light becomes no longer perceived. This is not folely owing to the enlargement of the iris of the eye, fince that is performed in an infl:ant, bu t to this law of fenfation , that when a lefs flim ulus is appl ied (w ithin certain bou nds) the fenfib ility increafes. T hus at going into a bJth as much colder than the body as that of Buxton, the diminution of heat on the fi<in is at fi rfi perceived, but in about a minu te the fenfibility to heat inc rea fes, and the nerves of the fi< in are equa lly excited by the lel1ened fl imulus. The fenfation of warmth at emerging from a cold-bath, and the pain called the hot-~ch, after t he hands have been immerfed in fnow, depend on the fame principle, \' iZ. the mcrea feJ fen.fibility of the D{in after having been previoufly expofed to a flimulu~ le::fs than ufu.<l. s :1. |
