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Show 90 ] Nor Time :fhall mar ; nor Steel, nor Fire, nor Rufi Touch the hard polifh of the immortal bull:. 2. " HENCE fable CoAL his maffy couch extends, And fiars of gold the fparkling Pyrite blends; 3 50 Hence dull-eyed Naphtha pours his pitchy fireams And Jet uncolour' d drinks the folar beams, Bright Amber fhines on his eleB:ric throne, And adds ethereallufhes to his own .. -Led by the phofphor-light, with daring tread 3SS Immortal FRANKLIN fought the_ fiery bed;. Hence f ahle Coal. I. 349· See additional· notes, No. XXIII. on coal. Bright Amber Jbines. 1. 353· Coal has probably all been fublimed more or Iefs from the clay, with which it was at firll: formed in decompoting moraffes; the petroleum feems to have been feparated and condenfed again in fuperior ftrata, and a ftill finer kind of oil, :~s naphtha, has probably had the fame origin. Some of thefe liquid oils have again Jofl: thtir mor~ volatile pa:t~, and become cannel-coal, afphaltum, jet, and amber, according to the punty of the ongmal foffil oil .Dr. Prie!lley has !hewn, that effential oils long expofed to ~he atmo~phere ~bforb both the vital and phlogill:ic part of it; whence it is proba~ le thetr beco.mmg fohd may .in. grc.at m~afure depend, as well as by the exhalation of theu mo:e volatll~ par,ts. On d!lhllatiOn With volatile alcaly all thefe foffil oils are fuewn . to contatn the ac t~ of amber, which evinces the identity of their origin. If a piece of amber b~ rubbed It attracts fl:raws and hairs, whence the difcovery of ele£l:ricity, and i whence 1ts name, from electron the Greek word for amber. . Immortal Franklin. I. 356. See note on Canto t l. 3~3· 9I ) Where, nurfed in night, incumbent Tempefl: ihrouds His embryon Thunders in circutnflucnt clouds, Befieged with iron points their airy cell, And pierced the monfiers Dutnbering in the {hell. 3 6? '' So, born on founding pinions to the WEsT, When Tyrant-Power had built his eagle nefi ; While frorn his eyry {hriek'd the famiili'd brood, Clenched their tbarp claws, and champ' d their beaks for blood, Imrnortal FRANKLIN watch'd the callow crew, And fiabb' cl the firuggling Vampires, ere they flew. -The patriot-:Aarne with quick contagion ran, Hill lighted hill, and man eleClrifed 1nan; Her heroes Dain a'vhile CoLUMBIA mourn'<.1, And crown'd with laurels LIBERTY rcturn'd. 370 " The Warrior, LIBERTY, with bending fctils Helm'd his Lold courfe to fair 1-liBERNrA's vales;Firm as he fieps along the {houting lands, Lo ! T'rut 1 and Virtue range their radiant bands ; l '2 |