the statue of Hygeia; holding in her hand a tablet, on which are inscribed the names of Harvey, Syden+ ham, and Hunter. Health, in the character of a Fawn, supports the bust of Armstrong.

On the obelisk, at the farther end of the shrubbery, hang two medallions; one of Nelson, the other of Moore. These are the only warriors, to whom Philotes has been anxious to pay the homage of admiration and gratitude.

A column, erected on the highest peak of the mountains, celebrates the virtues and genius of Newton and Halley, Ferguson and Herschell. Em→ bosomed in trees, through which are formed four shady vistas, exhibiting so many resemblances of fretted aisles, stands a temple of Gothic architecture. Eolian harps, concealed among mosses and lilies of the valley, decorate the windows; near which stand the statues of Haydn and Handel, Pleyel and Mozart. Paintings by some of our best modern artists cover the walls and ceilings of the temple. The subjects of these pictures are represented, as indulging in various amusements. Taliesin is listening to the sounds of his own harp; Chaucer is occupied in writing his Romance of the Rose: Spenser is reading the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto; Shakespeare is dipping his pen in the overflowings of a human heart; and Milton appears wrapt in silent ecstacy; contemplating with awful devotion the opening of a cloud, which progressively unfolds to his astonished eye the wonders of the Empyrean. Otway is represented, as melting into tears, at the sorrows of his

own Monimia; Pope is receiving a crown of laurel from his master, Homer; Akenside is refreshing his intellectual thirst, at the fountain of the Naiads; Thomson and Dyer, Beattie and Macpherson, are standing in view of the four vistas, appearing to contemplate the beauties of the surrounding scenery; while Burns is wandering among his native mountains, and making their vast solitudes resound with the name of liberty. Leaving this temple, we walk to the farther end of the western vista; where we come to an Alpine bridge: and, after making a few turns, we arrive unexpectedly at a small lake, shaded by trees of every description; at the north end of which, we observe a portico of the Tuscan order. On approaching it, we read on the entablature the following inscription :

ILLE POTENS SUI

LETUSQUE DEGET, CUI LICET in diem
DIXISSE, VIXI.

"Ah! he is indeed happy," has Colonna often exclaimed, as he has passed this beautiful spot ;-" he is of all men happy, who has the power of saying at the close of every day, 'I have lived.' Neither Homer, nor Horace, nor Tasso, nor Shakespeare, have ever uttered a greater truth than this!"

In an alcove, immediately behind this portico, stands a statue, leaning over a circular marble basin. The statue is that of a female, in whose countenance we immediately recognize the nymph of the FOUNTAIN OF TEARS. At the foot of the pedestal is in

scribed an elegant Alcaic fragment from the pen of Gray :➡ Ban

O Lachrymarum Fons!-tener sacros
Ducentium ortus ex animio ; quatuor ti

T

Felix !—in imo qui scatentém

Pectore, te, Pia Nympha!-sensit.

CHAPTER II.

FROM the splendid domain of Philotes, permit me to invite you, my Lelius, to a description of a small cottage, in which Colonna passed the summer of 1814. It stood in a garden with a small lawn before it, at one end of a village; of which was retired and well-wooded. The porch was covered with honeysuckles. A grape vine and a pear-tree lined one wing; a peach and a nectarine-tree the other. The garden was an union of the flower, vegetable, and fruit garden. Before the lawn was a meadow of about two or three acres. At the bottom of this meadow ran a small rivulet. On the other side were several gardens belonging to the villagers. Beyond these a mossy terrace led to the banks of the river, which was about half a mile, wide. Over this noble river rose a line of small hills, at the feet of which stood the village, Parsonage House, and church of St. Ismaels. On the right three green fields rising above each other, and studded, as it were, with cows and sheep, terminated at the upper end in a wood, the green of which was variously tinted.

Upon an eminence overlooking the whole were the ruins of an old castle, formed in the style of those, described in Spenser's. Fairy Queen :➡➡ Beneath which the river entered the great bay. In the perspective was seen rising over the waters, a rock, in which was a perforation, through which the sea rushed at half tide, and sometimes caused a reper cussion, which shook their cottage to the foundation, though at sixteen or eighteen miles distance! In the river were frequently seen those curious boats, called in the language of the country," Coracles':" formed of wicker and lined with skins; and which the fisher→ men carry on their backs, on their return from fishing, and lay them in the sun near their cottage

1 From Cwrwgl :-In Irish "Curach."-The Greenland boats are also made with laths, tied together with whalebone, and covered with seal-skins. In these slender vehicles they are said to be able to row up wards of sixty miles a-day; and the tops being covered with skins, they resist the fury of every storm. For when a wave upsets them, the boat rises again to the surface of the water, and regains its equilibrium.When Frobisher first saw them in 1576, he took them for seals or porpoises. In the voyages of the two Zenos, they are compared to weavers' shuttles, They are used, also, in the islands of the North Asian Archipelago; where the Russians call them Baidars; and are found to be of such practical use, that Lieut. Kotzebue, in his expedition to Baffin's Bay, and thence along the American coast of the Frozen Sea, took with him boats of a similar construction, in order to ford any rivers, that might obstruct his journey. Similar boats are used by the Samoides of Nova Zembla. They are also used in Labrador, Hudson's Bay, and Norton Sound.They glide with almost inconceivable swiftness. The Arctic Highlanders of Baffin's Bay, however, have no method of navigating the water. They never even heard of a canoe.

* Stæhlin, p. 25.

doors, till the next voyage. These Coracles, which are also used in the Conway and other rivers in North and South Wales, are of great antiquity. The Ethiopians were accustomed to form boats of bulrushes:-and it was probably something of this kind, that the mother of Moses constructed, when she laid him among the bulrushes. Herodotus says, "of all that I saw, next to Babylon itself, what appeared to me the greatest curiosity were the boats. They are constructed in Armenia; where they are formed of willow, over which are placed skins. When the owners of them reach Babylon, they dispose of their merchandize, sell the ribs of their boats, and placing the skins over their mules, return with them into Armenia to employ them again in the same manner.' These boats are now used in Thibet, and in many parts of Siberia. They were used, according to Lucan, on the Eridanus; on the Durance in Gaul3; and near Memphis in Egypt. The Britons frequently traversed the Irish Sea with them; and they were made use of by the Picts and Scots, in their frequent invasions, during the decline of the Roman power. Cesar, too, approved of them so much, that he constructed a multitude of boats, on a similar plan, in order to conduct his army over a river in Spain.

1 Isaiah, c. xviii,, v. 2.

2 Exodus, c. ii., y.3.

3 Vide an inscription at Arles.-Thicknesse, vol. ii. p. 15.

Solinus, c. 35.