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Show [ 6o J So the tall grafs, when noon-tide zephyr blows, Bends it's green blades in undulating rows ; Wide o'er the fields the billowy tumult fpreads, And ruftling harvefis bow their golden heads. 10 I. "GNOMES! youR bright forms, prefiding at her birth, Clung in fond fquadrons round the new-born EAR TII ; When high in ether, with explo:Gon dire, From the deep craters of his realms of fire, The whirling Sun this ponderous planet hurl' d, I 5 And gave the aH:oniih' d void another ·world. When from it's vaporous air, condenfed by cold,, Defcending torrents into oceans roll' d; From tht deep craters. t 14· The exi!l:ence of (olar volcanos is countenanced by their analogy to terrefl.rial, and lunar volcaHos; and by the fpots on the fun 's difk, which have been l11cwn by Dr. ~i~fon to be excavations through its luminous furface, and may be fuppofed to be the cavities from whence the planets a11d comets were ejeCl:ed by explofions. Sec additional notes, No. XV. on folar volcanos. When from its vaporous air. 1. 17. If the nucleus of the earth was thrown out from the fu~ by ::m explofion along with as large a quantity of furrounding hot vapour as its attracb~n would occafion to accompany it, the ponderous femi-fluid nucleus would take a fphc~·1cal form from the attraction of its own parts, which wo1Ild become an oblate fphcro11.l from its diurnal revolution. As the vapour cooled, the water would be preci- [ 6t ] And fierce attraCl:ion with relentlefs force Bent the reluCtant wanderer to it's cqurfe. " \Vhere yet the Bull with diamond-eye adorns The Spring's fair forehead, and with golden horns; Where yet the Lion clitnbs the ethereal plain, And ihakes the Summer frmn his radiant mane ; Where Libra lifts her airy arm, and weighs, Poifed in her :filver balance, nights and days ; With paler lufhes where Aquarius burns, And ihowers the :frill fnow from his hoary urns ; YouR ardent troops purfued the flying fphere, Circling the ftarry girdle of the year ; While [ weet viciffitudes of day and cli1ne Mark' d the new annals of enafccnt Tin1e. 20 pitated, and an ocean would [urround the fpherical nucleus with a fupcrincumbi;nt atmo· fphere. The nucleus of folar lava would likewife become h:u·Jer as it became cooler. To underfland how the !l:rata of the earth were afterwards formed from the fediments of this circumflucnt ocean the rea::ler is referred to an ingenious Treatife on the Theory of the Earth by Mr. Whitehur!l:, who was many years a watchmaker and engineer at Derby, but whofe ingenuity, integrity, and humanity, were rarely equalled in any !l:ation of life. |
