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Show [ 122 ] " Sweet Nudling! withering in thy tender hour, 385 " Oh, Deep," ilie cries, " and n.f e a fa:'t rer n{] ower.I " ·-So when the Plague o'er London's gafping crowds Shook her dank wing, and fieer' d her murky clouds ; When o'er the friendlefs bier no rites were read, No dirge Dow-chaunted, and no pall out-fpread; 390 While Death and Night piled up the naked throng, And iilence drove their ebon cars along ; Six lovely daughters, and their father, fwept To the throng'd grave CLEONE faw, and wept; Her tender mind, with meek Religion fraught, 395 Drank all-refign' d AffiiB:ions bitter draught; Alive and lifl:ening to the whifper' d groan Of others' woes, unconfcious of h er own !-· One fmiling boy, her lafl: fweet hope, ihe warms Huih' d on her boforn, circled in her arms.- 400 Daughter of woe ! ere ri1orn, in vain carefs' d, Clung the cold babe upon thy milklefs breafl:, With feeble cries thy lafi fad aid required, Stretch' d its fiiff limbs, and on thy lap expired !- [ 123 J -Long with wide eye-lids on her child ihe gazed, 405 And long to Heaven their tearlefs orbs :ihe raifed ; Then with quick foot and throbbing heart ihe found Where Chartreufe open' d deep his holy ground ; Bore her lafi treafure through the midnight gloom, And kneeling dropp' d it in the mighty tomb ; 41 o " I follow next!'' the frantic mourner faid, And living plunged atnid the fefiering dead. Where vafl: Ontario rolls his brinelefs tides, And feeds the tracklefs forefis on his fides, Whtre Char/reufe. l. 408. During the plague in London, x665, one pit to receive the dead was dug in the Charter-houfe, 40 feet long, 16 feet wide, and about 20 feet deep; and in two weeks received 1 I 14 bodies. During this dreadful calamity there were inflances of mothers carrying their own children to thofe public graves, and of people delirious, or in dcfpair from the lofs of their friends, who threw themfelves alive into thefe pits. Journal of the plague-year in 1665, printed for E. Nutt, Royal Exchange. Rolls his brinelifs tide. I. 413. Some philofophers have b..:lieved that the continent of -America was not railed out of the great occ:m at fo early a period of time as the other continents. One reafon for this opinion was, becaufe the great lakes, perhaps nearly as large as the Mediterranean Sea, confifl: of frefh water. Anrl as the fea-falt feems to have its origin from the deflruetion of vegetable and animal bodies, wafhed down by rains, and carried by river~ into lakes or feas; it would feem that this fource of fea-falt had not fo long exifl:ed in that country. There is, however, a more fatisfaetory way of |