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Show PRE·FACE. THE Poem, which is here offered to the Public, does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of reasoning; its ain1 is simply to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination the beautiful and sublime images of the operations of Nature in the order, as the Author believes, in which the progressive course of time presented them. The Dei ties ofEgypt, and afterwards of Greece, and Rome, werederivedfrommen famous in those early times, as in the ages of hunting, pasturage, and agriculture. 1,he histories of some of their actions recorded in Scripture, or celebrated in the heathen mythology, are introduced, as the Author 4 6954 |