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treasures, Peace and Health.

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as made by Mr. Gray while at Cambridge in the Year 1736, and e age of 20.—It has place here as a curiosity; Mr. Mason having essed his belief that it was Gray's first attempt in English Verse.]

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h sturdy step and slow, Hippomedon;
Ful and strong he pois'd the well-known
weight,

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vigorous arm he try'd before he flung,
c'd all his nerves, and every sinew strung;
en with a tempest's whirl, and wary eye,
rsu'd his cast, and hurl'd the orb on high;
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r overleaps all bound, and joys to see
› ancient lord secure of victory.

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e terrors of his claws in gold.

8, 1736.

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"the eminent Gaurus, a stony a
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many have consumed muc
treasure. The famous Luc
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of the new mountain; wher
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elsewhere will believe, that
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a height as to contend in al ing In the year of our Lord "for certain days foregoing "with perpetual earthquakes "not to expect an immediat "two hundred paces from th 4 springs of fresh water risi "ascended, about the seco roaring, horribly vomiting whelmed all the building "Tripergula, for so many "ashes, killing birds and b "ying through the dark w filed, crying out, and de chiefs have they suffered b "Nature inflicted.-This "a number of issues; at flaming; at others disg

ng passage in Sandys's Travels: "West of Cicero's Villa stands eminent Gaurus, a stony and desolate mountain, in which there diverse obscure caverns, choaked almost with earth, where y have consumed much fruitless industry in searching for sure. The famous Lucrine Lake extended formerly from rnus to the aforesaid Gaurus: But is now no other than a little gy plash, choaked up by the horrible and astonishing eruption he new mountain; whereof, as oft as I think, I am easy to crewhatsoever is wonderful. For who here knows not, or who ewhere will believe, that a mountain should arise, (partly out of ake and partly out of the sea) in one day and a night, unto such eight as to contend in altitude with the high mountains adjoin;? In the year of our Lord 1538, on the 29th of September, when certain days foregoing the country hereabout was so vexed th perpetual earthquakes, as no one house was left so entire as t to expect an immediate ruin; after that the sea had retired o hundred paces from the shore, (leaving abundance of fish, and rings of fresh water rising in the bottom) this mountain visibly cended, about the second hour of the night, with an hideous aring, horribly vomiting stones and such store of cinders as overhelmed all the building thereabout, and the salubrious baths of Tripergula, for so many ages celebrated; consumed the vines to shes, killing birds and beasts: the fearful inhabitants of Puzzol lying through the dark with their wives and children; naked, deFiled, crying out, and detesting their calamities. Manifold mischiefs have they suffered by the barbarous, yet none like this which Nature inflicted.—This new mountain, when newly raised, had a number of issues; at some of them smoking and sometimes flaming; at others disgorging rivulets of hot waters; keeping

itreum lugenti vertice pontum: liu, & veteri desuetus olivâ

pineæque eheu jam nescius umbræ ; sæva premit vicinia montis, e urget latus, exuritque ferentem. - est olim, mediâ dum rura silebant victa, & molli perfusa quiete, equor ponti, auditamque per omnes surdùm immugire cavernas : emora alta tremunt; tremit excita tuto sinu, flammantisque ora Vesevi. aperire solum, vastosque recessus pedibus, nigrâque voragine fauces; Cinerum glomerare sub æthere nubes pidis, ardentique imbre procellam. gere feræ, perque avia longè

omos.

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ne percussum, & palle
umque, flammasque, r
Quin ubi detonuit fragor

stos confluere agricolas
Tandem iterum timido des
erantes, si forte oculis,
Corum cineres, miseroru
Tenuia, sed tanti saltem
a colligere & justa co
Corum nusquam cineres
pem miseram!) assueto
bunt.

Quippe ubi planities can
Mons novus: ille super
Incanum ostentans, amb

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