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Show ( 102 ] Clofed round their heads reluctant eddies fink, And wider rings fucceffive da:fh the brink.Three thoufand fl:eps in fparry clefts they fl:ray, Or feek through fullen mines their glomny way; On beds of Lava :fleep in coral cells, Or figh o'er jafper fi:i11, and agate {hells. 120 Till, where famed lLAM leads his boiling floods Through flowery meadows and impending woods, Pleafed with light fpring they leave the dreary night, 1 2 5 And 'mid circu1nfluent furges rife to light ; Shake their bright locks, the widening vale purfue, Their fea-green mantles fringed with pearly dew; In playful groups by towering THORP they move, Boundo'erthe foamingwears, andrufh into the Dove. I 30 With fierce difrraB:ed eye IMPATIENs fiands, Swells her pale cheeks, and brandiihes her hands ' lmpatims ·I. I 31. Touch me not. The feed veffel confill:s of one cell with five divifions.; each of thefe, when the feed is ripe, on being touched, fuddenly folds itfelf into a fp.lr~l form, leaps from the !l:alk, and difperfes the feeds to a great di!l:ance by its ela!l:tctty. The capfule of the geranium and the beard of wild oats are twified for a [ 103 ] With rage and hate the afl:onifh' d groves alarms, And hurls her infants from her frantic arms. -So when MED£A left her native foil ' Unaw'd by danger, unfubdued by toil; Her weeping fire and beckoning friends withfl:ood, And launch' d ena1nour' d on the boi.ling flood ; One ruddy boy her gentle lips carefs' d, And one fair gir 1 was pillowed on her breafl: ; While high in air the golden treafure burns, And Love and Glory guide the prow by turns. 1 35 fimi~ar purpofe, and difiodge their feeds on wet days, when the ground is bell: fitted to receive them. Hence one of thefe, with its adhering capfule or beard fixed on a ll:and, ferves the purpofe of an hygrometer, twilling itfclf more or lefs according to the moifture of the air. The awn of barley is furniihed with fiiffpoints, which, like the teeth of a faw, are ~11 tu.rned tow~rd~ the point of it; as this long awn lies upon the ground, it extends ~tfelf m th~ m01fl: air of ~ig~t, and pufhes forwards the barley corn, which it adheres to; ~n the. day It {hortens as 1t dnes; and as thefe points prevent it from receding, it draws up Jts pomted end; an~ thus.' creeping like a worm, will travel many feet from the parent fie.m . . T~at very wgem0us Mechanic Philofopher, Mr. EJgworth, once made on thts prmctple a wooden automaton; its back confi!led of foft Fir-wood, about an inch fquare, and four feet long, made of pieces cut the crofs-way in rcfpect to the fibres of the wood, and ~luecl together: it h:>cl two feet before, and two behind, which fupported the back honzontally; but were placed with their extremities, which were armed with {harp points of iron, bending backwards. Hence, in rnoifi weather the back lengthened, and the two foremofl: feet were pufhed forwards; in dry weather the hinder f~et were drawn af~er, as the obliquity of the points of the feet prevented it from recedt~ g. And t.hus, m a month or two, it walked acrofs the room which it inhabited. Mtght not th1s machine be applied as an Hygrometer to fame meteorological purpofd |
