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ts--Giants--Mr. Wright's paintings--Thalestris Autumnal scene--Dervise procession--Lady in full dress--Lady on a precipice--Palace in the sea--Vegetable lamb--Whale-- Sensibility--Mountain-scene by night--Lady drinking water--Lady and cauldron--Medea and AEson--Forlorn nymph Galatea on the sea--Lady frozen to a statue CANTO II. Air-balloon of Mongolfier--Arts of weaving and spinning--Arkwright's cotton mills--Invention of letters, figures and crotchets--Mrs. Delany's paper-garden--Mechanism of a watch, and design for its case--Time, hours, moments--Transformation of Nebuchadnazer--St. Anthony preaching to fish Sorceress--Miss Crew's drawing--Song to May--Frost scene--Discovery of the bark--Moses striking the rock--Dropsy--Mr. Howard and prisons CANTO III. Witch and imps in a church--Inspired Priestess--Fusseli's night-mare--Cave of Thor and subterranean Naiads--Medea and her children--Palmira weeping Group of wild creatures drinking--Poison tree of Java--Time and hours--Lady shot in battle--Wounded deer--Harlots--Laocoon and his sons--Drunkards and diseases--Prometheus and the vulture--Lady burying her child in the plague Moses concealed on the Nile--Slavery of the Africans--Weeping Muse CANTO IV. Maid of night Fairies--Electric lady--Shadrec, Meshec, and Abednego, in the fiery furnace--Shepherdesses--Song to Echo--Kingdom of China--Lady and distaff--Cupid spinning--Lady walking in snow--Children at play--Venus and Loves--Matlock Bath--Angel bathing--Mermaid and Nereids--Lady in salt-- Lot's wife--Lady in regimentals--Dejanira in a lion's skin--Offspring from the marriage of the Rose and Nightingale--Parched deserts in Africa-- Turkish lady in an undress--Ice-scene in Lapland--Lock-lomond by moon light--Hero and Leander--Gnome-husband and Palace under ground--Lady inclosed in a fig--Sylph-husband--Marine cave--Proteus-lover--Lady on a Dolphin--Lady bridling a Pard--Lady saluted by a Swan--Hymeneal procession --Night CONTENTS OF THE NOTES. * * * * * Seeds of Canna used for prayer-beads Stems and leaves of Callitriche so matted together, as they float on the water, as to bear a person walking on them The female in Collinsonia approaches first to one of the males, and then to the other Females in Nigella and Epilobium bend towards the males for some days, and then leave them The stigma or head of the female in Spartium (common broom) is produced amongst the hi
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