remely steep and craggy.

[56] Tradition reports that the rock was anciently connected by a large
tract of land with the Isles of Scilly, and that the whole space between
was inundated by an incursion of the sea.

[57] It is only at high tide the rock is entirely surrounded by the sea;
at low water it is accessible by land.

[58] One of the supposed followers of Brutus, to whom Cornwall was
allotted. The rather by him liked, says Milton, for that the hugest
giants in rocks and caves were said to lurk there; which kind of
monsters to deal with was his old exercise.

[59] At the bottom of this mountain, as they were digging for tin, they
found spear-heads, axes, _et cet._--_Camden._

[60] A convent built on the top of the rock, where the apparition of St
Michael was said to have appeared.

[61] A speaking-trumpet lying on the ground.

[62] This and the foregoing reflections were suggested by seeing
instruments of music, books, _et cet._, in an apartment, elegantly but
appropriately fitted up.

[63] On the highest turret of the castle is a place called St Michael's
Chair.

[64] Alluding to the cruelties committed in France.

ON AN UNFORTUNATE AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.

WRITTEN DECEMBER 1783.

Oh, Mary, when distress and anguish came,
And slow disease preyed on thy wasted frame;
When every friend, ev'n like thy bloom, was fled,
And Want bowed low thy unsupported head;
Sure sad Humanity a tear might give,
And Virtue say, Live, beauteous sufferer, live!
But should there one be found, (amidst the few
Who with compassion thy last pangs might view),
One who beheld thy errors with a tear,
To whom the ruins of thy heart were dear, 10
Who fondly hoped, the ruthful season past,
Thy faded virtues might revive at last;
Should such be found--oh! when he saw thee lie,
Closing on every earthly hope thine eye;
When he beheld despair, with rueful trace,
Mark the strange features of thy altered face;
When he beheld, as painful death drew nigh,
Thy pale, pale cheek, thy feebly lifted eye,
Thy chill, shrunk hand, hung down as in despair,
Or slowly raised, with many a muttered prayer;-- 20
When thus, in early youth, he saw thee bend
Poor to the grave, and die without a friend;
Some sadder feelings might unbidden start,
And more than common pity touch his heart!
The eventful scene is