Has watched her ways, tells me that she is used
To bathe her in a fountain; and has shewn me
The very spot. There will I plant me close
Among the shrubs and bushes, and so wait
Until she come; then seize my opportunity,
And run upon her. What can she oppose,
The tender thing, either by force or flight,
To one so swift and powerful? She may use
Her sighs and tears, and all that is of force
In beauty to move pity. I will twist
This hand of mine in her thick locks; nor stir
One step till I have drank my draught of ven-
geance.

These will suffice to show where the tranlator has been most successful. In less fortunate passages, we have such puerilities and blunders as these:

When wilt thou grieve thou didst not mind my words;

Then wilt thou shun the fountains, for mere dread Of seeing thyself grown wrinkled and featureless [a heroic line!]

To one [to] whom nought else under heaven de- Catholic; for the ancients, by deifying the

ments of civilization; and like the heroes of
Greece, were subsequently deified:
genus indocile ac dispersum montibus altis
Composuit, legesque dedit,

The Turk never turns his temples into char- of the Anio to our right, proceeded by the nel-houses, like the Reinan. Whether via Sublacensis to Subiaco, a place known noble or mechanic, he enters his mosque in ancient geography, under the title of the with sentiments of devotion and awe. The Simbrivine ponds; and distant from VicoRoman on the contrary, often laughs at varo about twenty miles. We presently several of those ceremonies, which his con- crossed the Rio Freddo, which was trans- says Virgil speaking of Saturnus. Dionyscience will upbraid him for neglecting." ported to Rome on a course of arches sixty-sius of Halicarnassus is so confused in his Nor do we quarrel seriously with the one miles in length, under the title of Aqua account of these Aborigines, or as some have specimens of affectation in style, that occa- Marcia. It corresponds with the descrip- called them Aberrigines, that he leaves us as sionally cross us;—“ a Babylonish dialect" tion of it given by Frontinus: penè statim much in the dark as before. The two insuris becoming quite common with our travel- stagnino colore præviridi, being of an eme-mountable difficulties among the Italian anlers; and all that Mr. K. needs to have said rald green: and water, when very pure, tiquaries, are the origin of this race, and of his lucubrations is, that they are not out of seems of that colour. It is thus that the that of the Tuscans. It is amusing to trace the fashion. And he has the general excuse Spaniards have their Rio verde in a cele- the contradictory statements of the learned Their descent perof necessarily quoting much, and couse-brated romance. About a mile further to respecting the last. quently being thrown as it were upon a the left, are also the sources of the Aquaplexed the ancients, as well as moderns. patch-work of languages. The general cha- Claudia, which according to Plinius, tra- Herodotus tells us that they came from racter of the volume however will appear welled to the capital on a range of arches Lydia; Varro, and Aristides quoted by sufficiently from the following examples, not less than forty-six miles in length. . We Strabo, will have it that they were Pelaswhich show the author to be imbued with left Aosta to our right, the ancient Augustu, gians; Bochart, that they came from Caclassic literature, of refined understanding, built on a precipitous and insulated rock, naan, or Phoenicia; Buonaroti, from Egypt; and of very considerable originality of talent. in the midst of the valley. Five miles be- while Pelloutier, Freret, and others mainThe opinion of so competent a connoisseur yond is Subiaco, which Nero made conspicu-tain that they were of Celtic origin. It is upon Canova and Thorvaldsen is worth ous with his villa. Sublaqueum, under the probable that the Aborigines and the Tuscans quoting. lakes, or as we might translate it, under the were indigenous in the strict sense of the halter, seems an appropriate residence for word; placed in Italy by the immediate such a tyrant. Tacitus tells us that at a act of the Deity, like Adam in Mesopotamia. banquet given here by that abortion, the tables were struck and upset by a thunderbolt; we should however remember that the

"The modern Alcamenes (he says) has however found a puissant rival in the Dane Thorvaldsen, who in reliefs, is confessedly the first artist living: witness his Giorno, Notte, and Triumphs of Alexander. Neither would it be easy to find among Cano-Roman historians, and especially Tacitus, va's productions, statues superior to his Dancing Girl, his Mercury, and Adonis. But Venus receiving the apple, and Cupid contemplating his dart, both from the chisel of this distinguished Dane, are opera omnibus fortasse hodierna artis anteponenda. He will, I suspect, be found to possess more nerve and invention than Canova, and to be but little his inferior in grace. It inust however be understood, that though the Grecian spirit has been happily caught by these great artists, we cannot yet discover in their works that high creative ideal, which we recognize in the Apollo, the Meleager, and the Lao

ccon."

In an early stage of the excursion from Rome, Mr. K. visited the reputed remains of the Horatian Villa. His reflections here afford a fair example of his manner.

Of all the Latin poets, Horace is certainly the most original; and the best proof of this is the impossibility of imitating him with success. The harmonious majesty of Virgil, the sonorous pomp of Lucan, the philosophical dignity of Lucretius, the spleen and energy of Juvenal, the elegiac tenderness of Tibullus and Propertius, and the amorous fire of Ovid, have been sometimes caught by good scholars. But the style of the argute Venusian, especially in his satires and epistles, like the grata protervitas of his Glycera, has hitherto bid defiance to the most refined student. His curiosa felicitas escapes both Pope and Boileau; though it must be confessed that we are indebted to the last for a more perfect Art of Poetry.

Quitting the Horatian villa, we regained the via Valeria, and following the course

[The same argument is very applicable just now to our protestant cathedrals.]

are fond of giving effect to great occurrences
by the intervention of the thunder of Jove:
Discumbentis Neronis apud Simbrivina
stagna, cui Sublaqueum nomen est, ict
dapes mensaque disjecta erat. A monk of
the Altieri family has lately unearthed seve-
ral apartments of the Neronian villa. The
modern town is better built than Tivoli, and
a lofty and spacious feudal castle commands
it of the lower ages. Hither St. Benedict
retired, the founder of one of the most hos-
pitable and sensible of the monastic orders;
and a cave is shewn near the town, where
the saint offered up his orisons. Subiaco is
interesting as having been the first place in
Italy, where printing-presses were establish-
ed; and according to Tiraboschi, the works
of Lactantius, and the De Oratore of Cicero,
were the first productions of the first Italian
press, established in a monastery at Subiaco.
Rock crystal is found in the neighbouring
cliffs.

"But circumstances had occurred, which threw a chill over the enjoyment, which we should have otherwise felt, in witnessing the actual condition of this uncouth tribe. There was one Dicesaris, an aboriginal compound of bigotry, activity, and cruelty; the Cæsar Borgia of the Apennines. At the head of a troop of banditti as fearless as himself, he had spread terror to the gates of Rome, and had insulted, perhaps intimidated the authorities, by demanding a considerable ransom for an individual of note, whose person he had secured. The papal troops had been despatched in quest of him, and a few days before we left Rome, they had found his wife and family at the village of Saint Prassedi, whom by a summary legal process, they had murdered in cold blood. Dicesaris in consequence, was wandering in the heart of the Apennines, rabid as a wounded lion, and breathing slaughter and revenge. Informed however at Subiaco, by the magistrate, and papal military officer, that he had not been heard of, or seen in that vicinity, we crossed the Anio, now reduced to a streamlet, and we saw the mountain beyond, unde Aniena fluenta.”

Thus between pleasing learned gossip, and a somewhat odd jumble of incident and remark, we proceed onward to Arpino.

Their

"We had now entered the narrow defiles of the Apennines, and the nidus of the Italian Aborigines, who like the autochthones of Greece, despised the neighbouring tribes, who owed their origin to colonies. Whence "On approaching the village of Anticoli, they came is matter of dispute. Cato tells which I do not find occupying the site of us in a fragment, primò Italiam tenuisse any ancient town, we saw a multitude of quosdam qui Aborigines appellabantur; and peasants and herdsmen assembled on a sort Justin says that they were the first cultiva- of rude terrace, to witness a horse-race. tors of Italy. They were believed by some appearance was uncouth and pictuto have come from Achaia. Festus speak-resque in the extreme. They were clad ing of them says: fuit gens antiquissima chiefly in sheep-skins, and wore red caps. Italia. Their savage habits and life are minded me of the Nogai Tartars in the The better class were armed. They realluded to by Virgil in the following line : south of Russia. These modern Aborigines, Gensque virúm truncis et duro robore nata; with black dishevelled hair, and olive comand by Sallust: genus hominum agreste, plexions, who rent the air with barbarous sine legibus, sine imperio, liberum atque yells as we passed, corresponded with the solutum. Janus and Saturnus were two of description of their ancestors, transmitted to their chiefs, who imparted to them the rudi- us by Virgil:

and Leigh Cliffe, Esquire (if such Squire | natives, the other the short sharp bark of the there be), ten times a duller coxcomb at native dog, insomuch that our dogs were scurrility than his namesake Leigh.

Horrida præcipuè cui gens, assuetaque multo Venatu nemorum durís Equicola glebis ; Armati terram exercent, semperque recentes Convectare juvat prædas, et vivere rapto. "Not desirous of entering our palfries at The First Day in Heaven. A Fragment. the Anticoli races, we journeyed to Alatri, London, 1820. 12mo. pp. 106. (Alatrium), a town that figures in the comeThis slight volume is, we understand, the dy of the Captives of Plautus. We arriv-production of one of the heads of an Irish ed there at dusk, after having passed Institution; and, as an ethical essay, foundthrough a country wooded by nature, like ed on an enlarged view of natural philosothe noblest parks of England. Alatri is one phy, is highly deserving of approbation. But of the five Saturnian cities; there are four we inust say, it has disappointed us-not others which claim their origin from that from its imperfections, but from its being unknown hero styled Saturnus. They all so complete a misnomer. We anticipated begin with the first letter of the alphabet, much from the title, which opened a gloriand are as follows: Alatri, Anagni, Atina, ous field, both for truth and imagination. Arce, and Arpino. There is something The First Day in Heaven, however, is but inexpressibly striking to the mind, on entering a city like Alatri, the origin of which is principles, intelligence, are all such as we one day added to earth. Its sentiments, lost in the impenetrable mist of ages. There highly approve it elevates the mind, and are no cities in England, of which we have applies nobly to the human understanding: any authentic records, earlier than Julius it contains many fine reflections, and some Cæsar; there are not many in France; we original thoughts-but it is not what it purcan trace the origin of them all, at least as soon as they began to assume any commer- from Heaven, even to so perfect an earth ports to be; and we dislike being dashed cial importance. The same will apply to the Spanish cities, with the exception perhaps of Tartessus, the origin of which is involved in obscurity. There is no city in Sicily, of which we have not authentic data; tradition respecting the Greek colonies is also pretty satisfactory; but enter any one of the five Saturnian, or the twelve Etrurian cities; ask about what period were laid the colossal substructions, remains of which are in all more or less visible. The person whom you interrogate, be he a Cluverius, is mute. You might as well hope to obtain satisfactory information respecting the oldest ruins in India, Persia, or Egypt; which have always perplexed, and will perplex antiquaries. All that we can conclude is, that Alatri is a city of the Italian Aborigines, founded at some remote and unknown period, probably by Saturnus, who after imparting some few ideas of civilization among his followers, was venerated by them, and subsequently, with Janus, (whose temples were common in the Apennines,) crept into Rome as the tutelar deities of the republic. It would be well if a new Janus or Saturnus could reappear in the Apennines, to propagate fresh ideas of social order; for here are an unreasonable number of the priesthood, and the same exitiabilis superstitio as in the capital."

* *

constantly deceived by the noise."
"An inmate of an alarming description
took up its lodging in our tent during the
last night, probably washed out of its hole
by the rain: a large diamond snake was dis-
covered coiled up among the flour bags, four
or five feet from the doctor's bed."

ing among the reeds along some of the
reaches; many exceeded six inches in length,
and three and a half in breadth. Traces of
cattle were found in various places as low as
Hove's Rock, which are now doubtless stray-
ing through the country."
Into the Macquarie fall the rivers Castle-
reagh, Field, Sydney, &c. and there are
some fine waterfalls. Its termination is
thus mentioned-

"A singular instance of affection in one | males and females, have very inuch assisted of the brute creation was this day witnessed. me in this object. About a week ago we killed a native dog, and threw his body on a sinal bush: in returning past the same spot to-day, we found the body removed three or four yards from the bush, and the female in a dying state lying close beside it; she had apparently been there from the day the dog was killed, being so weakened and emaciated as to be unable to move on our approach. It was deemed mercy to despatch her."

"The river itself continued, as usual, from fifteen to twenty-five feet deep, the waters which were overflowing the plains being We now take leave of this work, which will carried thither by a multitude of little be found to supply little more intelligence streams, which had their origin in the present than we have extracted; except so much as increased height of the waters above their may be summed up in few words. Lime usual level. The river continued undimi- and coal were occasionally found; and also, nished, and presented too important a body once, a saponaceous clay like fuller's earth. of water to allow me to believe that those The party suffered much from thirst, though marshes and low grounds had any material it is stated that rain fell abundantly; and one effect in diffusing and absorbing it: its ul- of the men was speared by a native, to obtain timate termination, therefore, must be more his axe, but recovered. Surveyors' jobs are consonant to its magnitude. These reflec- usually very expensive; and Mr. Oxley's, tions on the present undiminished state of with the super-addition of the bookseller's the river would of themselves have caused weighty pressure, renders this a work of exme to pause before I hastily quitted a pur-cessive cost, when considered with reference suit from the issue of which so much had to its intrinsic worth, or to the-value of the naturally been expected. For all practical information it furnishes to the general stock. purposes, the nature of the country precluded me from indulging the hope, that even if the river should terminate in an inland sea, it could be of the smallest use to the colony."

HUBER ON ANTS.

"The labourers are from five to six lines in length, the winged individuals are also proportionably .arge: they may be frequently seen running about the trunk of an oak, at the entrance of their labyrinths. When I disturbed those ants that were at the greatest distance from their companions, by either observing them too closely, or blowing upon them lightly, I saw them run towards the other ants, give them gentle blows with their heads against the corslet, communicating to them, in this way, their fear or anger, passing rapidly from one to the other in a semicircular direction, and striking several times successively against those who did not put themselves in instant motion. These, warned of the common danger, set off immediately, describing in their turn different curves, and stopping to strike with their heads all those they met on their passage. In one moment the signal was general, all the labourers ran over the surface of the tree with great agitation, those within receiving notice of the danger, and probably by the same means, came out in a crowd and joined this tumult. The same signal which produced upon the workers this effect, caused a different impression upon the males and females; as soon as one of the labourers had informed them of their dan

The author then details several extraordi

nary circumstantial proofs that these insects possess some kind of language, in which to make themselves understood by their companions.

[Dr. Johnson's Translation, continued.] The fourth chapter of this interesting his-ger, they sought an asylum, and re-entered "After going about twenty miles, we lost tory treats of the relation between [relations precipitately the trunk of the tree-not one the land and trees: the channel of the river, among] Ants; on which branch of their eco- thought of quitting its temporary shelter, which lay through reeds, and was from one nomy the following extract will be sufficient. until a worker approached and gave them to three feet deep, ran northerly. This con- "The guard or sentry of the ant-hill will the signal for flight. The solicitude of the tinued for three or four miles farther, when furnish us with the first proof of their so- labourers in their favour, is manifested in although there had been no previous change cial relations. We could, without doubt, the activity they display, in giving them in the breadth, depth, and rapidity of the irritate ants on the surface of the nest, with- advice or intimating to them the order for stream for several miles, and I was sanguine out alarming those in the interior, if they their departure; they redouble then the in my expectations of soon entering the long acted isolately, and had no means of com- above signals, as if conscious of their unsought for Australian sea, it all at once eluded municating their mutual impressions. Those derstanding their intent less readily than the our farther pursuit by spreading on every who are occupied at the bottom of their companions of their labours: the latter unpoint from north-west to north-cast, among nest, removed from the scene of danger, derstand them, if I may use the expression, the ocean of reeds which surrounded us, ignorant of what menaces their companions, at half a word." still running with the same rapidity as before. could not arrive to their assistance; but it There was no channel whatever among those appears, that they are quickly and well inreeds, and the depth varied from three to formed of what is passing on the exterior. five feet. This astonishing change (for When we attack those without, the most cannot call it the termination of the river), part engage in their defence with a considerof course left me no alternative but to endea-able degree of courage: there are always vour to return to some spot, on which we some, who immediately steal off and procould effect a landing before dark. I esti- duce alarm throughout their city; the news mated that during this day we had gone is communicated from quarter to quarter, about twenty-four miles, on nearly the same and the labourers come forward in a crowd, point of bearing as yesterday. To assert with every mark of uneasiness and anger. positively that we were on the margin of What, however, is highly worthy our remark the lake or sea into which this great body of is that the ants, to whose charge the young water is discharged, might reasonably be are confided, and who inhabit the upper stodeemed a conclusion which has nothing but ries, where the temperature is highest, conjecture for its basis; but if an opinion warned also of the impending danger, almay be permitted to be hazarded from actual ways governed by that extreme solicitude appearances, mine is decidedly in favour of for their charge, which we have so often adour being in the immediate vicinity of an mired, hasten to convey them to the deepest inland sea, or lake, most probably a shoal part of their habitation, and thus deposit one, and gradually filling up by immense them in a place of safety. depositions from the higher lands, left by the waters which flow into it. It is most singular, that the high-lands on this continent seem to be confined to the sea-coast, or not to extend to any great distance from it." The following anecdote is curious.

"To study in detail the manner in which this alarm spreads over the ant-hill, we must extend our observations to the individuals of the largest species: the Herculean Ants, who inhabit hollow trees and who quit them only in the spring, to accompany the

The fifth chapter treats of the wars of ants; and is almost as fine a satire on the biped pismire man, as Gulliver's Lilliputian

annals.

"Of all the enemies of the ant, those most dreaded are the ants themselves; the smallest not the least, since several fasten at once upon the feet of the largest, drag thein on the ground, embarrass their movements, and thus prevent their escape. One would be astonished at the fury of these insects in their combats; it would be more easy to tear away their limbs and cut them in pieces, than compel them to quit their hold. It is nothing uncommon to see the head of an ant suspended to the legs or antennæ of some worker, who bears about, in every place, this pledge of his victory. We also observe, not unfrequently, the ants dragging after them the entire body of some enemy they had killed some time before,

fastened to their feet in such a way as not to allow of their disengaging themselves.

"Supposing the ants to be of equal size, those furnished with a sting have an advantage over those who employ only for their defence their venom and their teeth. The whole of those ants whose peduncle has no scale, but one or two knots, are provided with a sting; the Red Ants, which are said to sting more sharply than the rest, possess both these sorts of arms. In general the ants furnished with a sting are, in our country, some of the smallest. I know but one species of middle size; but it is very rare and only inhabits the Alps.

the victim of its temerity, or was conducted | venom. Those ants composing groups and a prisoner to the enemy's camp. chains, took hold of each other's legs and "Such are the combats between ants of pincers, and dragged their antagonists on the different size; but if we wish to behold re-ground. These groups formed successively. gular armies, war in all its form, we must The fight usually commenced between two visit those forests in which the Fallow Ants ants, who seized each other by the mandiestablish their dominion over every insect in bles, and raised themselves upon their hindtheir territory. We shall there see populous legs, to allow of their bringing their abdoand rival cities, regular roads passing from men forward, and spurting the venom upon the ant-hill as so many rays from a centre, their adversary. They were frequently so and frequently by an iminense number of closely wedged together that they fell upon combatants, wars between hordes of the their sides, and fought a long time in that same species, for they are naturally enemies situation, in the dust; they shortly after and jealous of the territory which borders raised themselves, when each began dragging their own capital. It is in these forests its adversary; but when their force was "The wars entered into by ants of differ- have witnessed the inhabitants of two large equal, the wrestlers remained immoveable, ent size hear no resemblance to those in ant-hills engaged in spirited combat. I can- and fixed each other to the ground, until a which ants engage who come to combat not pretend to say what occasioned discord third came to decide the contest. It more with an equal force. When the large attack between these republics. They were com-commonly happened that both ants received the small, they appear to do it by surprise, posed of ants of the same species, alike in assistance at the same time, when the whole most likely to prevent the latter from fast- their extent and population; and were situ- four, keeping firm hold of a foot or antenna, ening upon their legs; they seize them in ated about a hundred paces distance from made ineffectual attempts to gain the battle. the upper part of the body and strangle each other. Two empires could not possess Some ants joined the latter, and these were, them immediately between their pincers. a greater number of combatants. in their turn, seized by new arrivals. It was But when the small ants have time to guard Let us figure to ourselves this prodigious in this way they formed chains of six, eight, against an attack, they intimate to their crowd of insects covering the ground lying or ten ants, all firmly locked together; the companions the danger with which they are between these two aut-hills, and occupying equilibrium was only broken when several threatened, when the latter arrive in crowds a space of two feet in breadth. Both armies warriors, from the same republic, advanced to their assistance. I have witnessed a battle met at half-way from their respective habi- at the same time, who compelled those that between the Herculean and the Sanguine tatious, and there the battle commenced. were enchained to let go their hold, when Ants; the Herculean Ants quitted the trunk Thousands of ants took their station upon the single combats again took place. On the of the tree in which they had established their the highest ground, and fought in pairs, approach of night each party returned graabode, and arrived to the very gates of the keeping firm hold of their antagonists by dually to the city, which served it for an assydwelling of the Sanguine Ants; the latter, only their mandibles: a considerable number were lum. The ants, which were either killed or half the size of their adversaries, had the ad- engaged in the attack and leading away pri-led away in captivity, not being replaced vantage in point of number; they, however, soners. The latter made several ineffectual by others, the number of combatants dimiacted on the defensive. The earth,strewed with efforts to escape, as if aware that, upon their nished, until their force was exhausted. the dead bodies of their compatriots, bore arrival at the camp, they would experience witness they had suffered the greatest car- a cruel death. The scene of warfare occunage: they, therefore, took the prudent pied a space of about three feet square; a part of fixing their habitation elsewhere, and penetrating odour exhaled from all sides; with great activity transported to a dis-numbers of dead ants were seen covered with tance of fifty feet from the spot, their com- box, nearly a month, about an equal number length, by two in breadth. panions, and the several objects that inte- of Red and Yellow Ants. It would seem that a a long time doubtful; about mid-day the rested them. Small detachments of the general feeling of compassion for their unfortu contending armies had removed to the disworkers were posted at little distances from nate imprisonment had given birth to a suspen-tance of a dozen feet from one of their cities, the nest, apparently placed there to cover sion of hostilities, and that rankling animosity whence I conclude some ground had been the march of the recruits and to preserve the had been exchanged for good will and social gained. The ants fought so desperately, city itself from any sudden attack. They order. During this period I seldom witnessed that nothing could withdraw them from their struck against each other when they met, any affray on the exterior of the nest, and on enterprize; they did not even perceive my and had always their mandibles separated in breaking it up, the interior gave me no room to presence, and although I remained close to the attitude of defiance. As soon as the Her-suppose it had been the scene of much conten- the army, none of them climbed upon my culean Ants approached their camp, the cen- tion; but scarcely were they liberated, scarcely legs; they seemed absorbed in one object, tinels in front assailed them with fury; they did they feel the fresh breeze passing over them, that of finding an enemy to contend with." fought at first in single combat. The San- than their animosity rekindled, and the field of guine Ant threw himself upon the Herculean combat. For a few moments each party seemed their liberty became the theatre of sanguinary Ant, fastened upon its head, turned its ab- engaged in discovering a place of retreat, and it domen against the chest of its adversary or was only on returning to the ruins of their origiagainst the lower part of its mouth, and in-nal prison, to bring off the rest of their compaundated it with venom. It sometimes quitted its antagonist with great quickness; more frequently, however, the Herculean Ant held between its feet its audacious enemy. The two champions then rolled themselves in the dust and struggled violently. The advantage was at first in favour of the largest ant; but its adversary was soon assisted by those of its own party, who collected around the Herculean Ant and inflicted several deep wounds with their teeth. The Herculean Ant yielded to numbers *; it either perished

The ants returned to the field of battle before dawn. The groups again formed; the carnage recommenced with greater fury than on the preceding evening, and the scene of combat occupied a space of six feet in Success was for