Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . longest and shortest apparent diameters being frequently as5 to 4, (Balthasaris Micrometria, p.\01, Jig. 103.) especially in the mornings, when therays are most refracted through a colder, denser, and moister air. Ibid. (2) Aristophanes in Avibus, v. 6Q2. Sable-winged Night produced an Egg;whence sprouted up, like a blossom, Eros, the lovely and desirable, with his glossygolden wings. This subject afforded to Darwin the machinery for one of the finestpassages in his poetry :— When Love divine, with brooding wings unfurled,Called from th
Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . longest and shortest apparent diameters being frequently as5 to 4, (Balthasaris Micrometria, p.\01, Jig. 103.) especially in the mornings, when therays are most refracted through a colder, denser, and moister air. Ibid. (2) Aristophanes in Avibus, v. 6Q2. Sable-winged Night produced an Egg;whence sprouted up, like a blossom, Eros, the lovely and desirable, with his glossygolden wings. This subject afforded to Darwin the machinery for one of the finestpassages in his poetry :— When Love divine, with brooding wings unfurled,Called from the rude abyss the living world—1 Let there be Light! proclaimed the Almighty Chaos heard the potent word ;Through all his realms the kindling Elber runs,And the mass starts into a million suns ;Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,And second planets issue from the first \ TO ULEABORG, IN OSTERO-BOTHNIA. 487 be observed, that this Egg was called aw vxwifMOf, which, to Hesychms, signifies (Urue) rainy*.. This changeful scenery still continued, varying at everyinstant: at last there ensued a more remarkable appearancethan any we had witnessed. The vapours dispersed,and all the rolling clouds disappeared, excepting a beltcollected in form of a ring highly luminous around themoon, which now appeared, in a serene sky, like theplanet Saturn, augmented to a size fifty times greater thanit appears through our best telescopes. The belt by whichthe moons rays were reflected became beyond descriptionsplendid, and the clear sky was visible between this belt and Bend as they journey with projectile force,In bright ellipses, their reluctant course ;Orbs wheel in orbs ; round centers, centers roll ;And form, self-balanced, one revolving whole :Onward they move, amid their bright abode,Space without bound, the bosom of th«ir God. (3) Twrivifiiov avcfiov, vitov. Hesychius. (4) See Bryants Mythology, , p. 332. Land. 1774. aqq FROM THE AU
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