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Show [ 52 J The winged rocks to feveriili climates guide, Where fainting Zephyrs pant upon the tide; Pafs where to CEUTA CALPE's thunder roars, ' And anfwering echoes ihake the kindred iliores ; Pafs, where with palmy plumes CANARY fmiles, And in her :filver girdle binds her ifles ; Onward, where NIGER's duiky Naiad laves A thoufand kingdo1ns with prolific waves, Or leads o'er golden fands her threefold train In fl:eamy channels to the fervid main ; While [ warthy nations croud the fultry coait, Drink· the frefh breeze, and hail the floating Frofl:, 535 540 the year 1718, in his voyage from Jamaica to England in the beginning of June, met with ice-if1ands coming from the north, which were furrounded with fo great a fog that the fuip was in danger of {hiking upon them, and that one of them meafured fix.ty miles in length. We have late! y experienced an infl.ance of ice-iOands brought from the Southern polar regions, on which the Guardian !huck at the beginning of her paffage from the Cape of Good Hope towards Botany Ray, on December 22, 1789. Thefe iflands were involved in mift, were about one hundred and fifty fathoms long, and about fifty fathoms above the furface of the water. A part from the top of one of them broke off and fell into the fea, cauling an extraordinary commotion in the water and a thick fmoke all round it. "'freejold train. I. 539· The river Niger ;fter traverfing an immenfe traCl: of populous country i~ fuppofed to divide itfelf into three other great rivers. The Rio Grande, the Gambia, and the Senegal. Gold-duft is obtained from the fands of thefe river.s. [ 53 ] NYMPHS ! veil'd in mi.fl:, the melting treafures fl:eer,. And cool with arC!ic fnows the tropic year. So from the burning Line by Monfoons driven, 54-S Clouds fail in fquadrons o'er the darken' d heaven; Wide wafies of fand the gelid gales pervade, And ocean cools beneath the moving £hade. XII. "Should SoLSTicE, fialking through the :fickening, bowers, Suck the warm dew-drops, lap the falling fhowers; 550 Kneel with parch' d lip, and bending from it'~ brink From dripping palm the fcanty river drink ; NYMPHs ! o'er the foil ten thoufand points ereet, And high in air the eleCtric Harne colleB:. Wide wajlu of Jand. I. 547· When the fun is in the Southern tropic 36 deg. diftant from the zenith, the thermometer is feldom lower than 72 deg. at Gondar in Abyffinia, but it falls to 6o or 53 deg. when the fun is immediately vertical; fo much does the approach of rain counteraCl: the heat of the fun. Bruce's Travels, VC'i.J, ? 670. Tm tlmifand points ereB. I. 553· Tij.e fo1ution rf water in air or in calorique, feems to acquire eleC!ric matter at the fame time, as appear!. "om an experiment of Mr. Bennet •. He put fame live coals into an infulated funnel of metal, and throwing on them a little water obferved that the afccnding fieam was elcC!rifed plus, and the water which de- |
