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Show ( 184 ] cc Oh! MIGHTY GoD! mnidft thy Seraph-throng '' Who :G.t'fl: fublime, the Judge of Right and Wrong; '' Thine the wide earth, bright fun, and fiarry zone, 2 81 " That twinkling journey round thy golden throne ; " Thine is the cryfral fource of life and light, " And thine the reahns of Death' s eternal night. " Oh I bend thine ear, thy gracious eye incline, 285 '' Lo! Aihur' s K.ing blafphen1es thy holy fhrine, " Infults our ~fferings, and derides our vows,-- '' Oh ! {hike the diaden1 frotn his in1pious brows, '' Tear from his murderous hand the bloody rod, . " And teach the tretnbling nations, "THou ART Gon !" --SYLPHS! in what dread array with pennons broad 2 91 On ward ye floated o'er the ethereal road, Call' cl each ~lank fieam the reeking 1nadh exhales, Contagious vapours, and volcanic gales, . /'ofcan ic gales. 1. 294· The peftilcnti al winds of the eall are defcribed by variou!i authors under various denom,inations; as harmattan, famiel, famium, fyrocca, kamfin, feravn nfum. M de Beauchamp defcribes a remarkable fouth wind in the deferts about Bagdad, call ed feravan fum, or poifon-wind ; it burns the face , impedes refpiration, {hips the trees of their leaves, and is faid to pa[s on in a flraight line, antl often kills people in [ 185 ] Gave the foft South w~th poifonous breath to blow, 295 And rolled the dreadful whirlwind on the foe!- Hark ! o'er the camp the venom' d tempeft fings, Man falls on Man, on buckler buckler rings ; Groan anf wers groan, to anguiili anguiili yields, And DEATH:S loud accents £hake the tented fields! 300 - ·High rears the Fiend his grinning jaws, and wide Spans the pale nations with coloffal ih·ide, Waves his broad fdchion with uplifted hand, And his vafi ihadow darkens all the land. fix hours. P. C otte fur la Meteorol. Analytical Review for February, 1790. M. Volney fays, the hot wind or ram fin feems to blow at the feafon when the fands of the deferts are the hot tell: ; th e air is then filled with an extreamly fubtile dl.J(l:. Vol. I. p. 6r. Thefe winds blow in all direCtions from the deferts; in Egypt the moll: violent proceed from the S. S. W. at Mecca from the E . at Surat from theN. at Ba!fora from the N. W. at Bagdad from the W. and in Syria from the S. E. On the fouth of Syria, he adds, where the Jordan flows is a country of yolcanos; and it is obferved that the earthquakes in Syria happen after their rainy feafon, which is alfo conformable to a fimilar obfervation made by Dr. Shaw in Barbary. Travels .in Egypt, Vol. I. p. 303. Thefe winds feem all to be of volcanic origin, as before mentioned, with this dif-fe rence, that the Simoom is attended with a fl ream of eletlric matter; they feem to be i n confequence of earthquakes caufed by the monfoon floods, which fall on volcanic ii res in Syria, at the fame time that they inundate the Nile. PART I. Bb |
