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Show r ro8 ] ' And fell LoBELIA's fuffocating breath Loads the dank pinion of the gale with death. -With fear and hate they blail: the affrighted groves, I 95 Yet own with tender care their kt'ndred Loves 1- So, where PALMIRA 'mid her wafted plains, Her ihatter' d aqueducts, and proil:rate fanes, (As the bright orb of bre~zy Iniclnight pours Long threads of iilver through her gaping towers, 200 0' er 1nouldering tombs, and tottering colun1ns gleatns, And froil:s her deferts with diffufive beatns), Lobelia. 1. I91· Longiflora. Grows in the Well: Indies, and fpreads fuch deleterious exhalations around it, that an oppreflion of the breall: is felt on approaching it at many feet dillance when p)aced in the corner of a room or hot-houfe. lngenhouz, Exper. on Air, p. 14-6. J acquini hort. botanic. Vindeb. The exhalations from ripe fruit or withering leaves are proved much to injure the air in which they are confined; and, it is probable, all thofe vegetables which emit a ll:rong fcent may do this in a greater or lefs degree, from the Rofe to the Lobelia; whence the unwholefomcnefs in living perpetually in fuch an atmofphere of perfume as fome people wear about their hair, or carry in their handkerchiefs. Either Boerhave or Dr. Mead have affirmed they were acquainted with a poifonous fluid whofe vapour would prefently deflroy the perfon who fat near it. And it is well known, that the gas from fermenting liquors, or obtained from lime-ll:one, will deflroy animals immerfed in it, as well as the vapour of the Grotto del Cani near Naples. So, where P~lmira. 1. 197. Among the ruins of Palmira, which are difperfecl not only over the plains but even in the deferts, there is one finglc colonade above 26oo yards long, the bafes of the Corinthian columns of which exceed the hcjght of a man: and yet this row is only a fmall part of the remains of that one edifice! Volney's Travels. [ 109 ] Sad o'er the mighty wreck in .fi.lence bends, Lifts her wet eyes, her tremulous hands extends.- If from lone cliffs a burfting rill expands 20 5 Its tran.fi.ent courfe, and finks into the fands ; O'er the moift rock the fell Hyrena prowls, The Leopard hiffes, and the Panther growls ; On quivering wing the famifh'd Vulture fcreams, 209 Dips his dry beak, and fweeps the guihing fireams; With foaming jaws, beneath, and fanguine tongue, Laps the lean Wolf, and pants, and runs along ; Stern ftalks the Lion, on the ruftling brinks I-Iears the dread Snake, and trembles as he drinks ; Quick darts the fcaly Monfier o'er the plain, 2 r 5 Fold, after fold, his undulating train; And, bending o'er the lake his crefted brow, Starts at the Crocodile, that gapes below. Where feas of glafs with gay refleaions fmile Round the green coajts of Java's palmy i:O.e ; 2 2 o |