wo former of
these may be collected from Lord Monboddo's learned work on
the Origin of Language, and from Mr. Bryant's curious account
of Ancient Mythology.

The use of iron tools, of the bow and arrow, of earthen
vessels to boil water in, of wheels for carriages, and the
arts of cultivating wheat, of coagulating milk for cheese,
and of spinning vegetable fibres for clothing, have been
known in all European countries, as long as their histories
have existed; besides the similarity of the texture of their
languages, and of many words in them; thus the word sack is
said to mean a bag in all of them, as [Greek: sakkon] in
Greek, saccus in Latin, sacco in Italian, sac in French, and
sack in English and German.

Other families of mankind, nevertheless, appear to have
arisen in other parts of the habitable earth, as the language
of the Chinese is said not to resemble those of this part of
the world in any respect. And the inhabitants of the islands
of the South-Sea had neither the use of iron tools nor of the
bow, nor of wheels, nor of spinning, nor had learned to
coagulate milk, or to boil water, though the domestication of
fire seems to have been the first great discovery that
distinguished mankind from the bestial inhabitants of the
forest.]

Hence ye profane!--the warring winds exclude
Unhallow'd throngs, that press with footstep rude;
But court the Muse's train with milder skies,
And call with softer voice the good and wise.
--Charm'd at her touch the opening wall divides,
And rocks of crystal form the polish'd sides;
Through the bright arch the Loves and Graces tread,
Innocuous thunders murmuring o'er their head; 60
Pair after pair, and tittering, as they pass,
View their fair features in the walls of glass;
Leave with impatient step the circling bourn,
And hear behind the closing rocks return.

HERE, high in air, unconscious of the storm.
Thy temple, NATURE, rears it's mystic form;
From earth to heav'n, unwrought by mortal toil,
Towers the vast fabric on the desert soil;
O'er many a league the ponderous domes extend.
And deep in earth the ribbed vaults descend; 70
A thousand jasper steps with circling sweep
Lead the slow v