...the shade never rises to any considerable height, and the sky still retaining the rays of the sun, 1 the heavenly bodies continue visible. The soil does...the soil. Britain contains, to reward the conqueror, mines of gold and silver, 2 and other metals. The sea time, but what arose from a different degree...

...the shade never rises to any considerable height, and, the sky still retaining the rays of the sun,j the heavenly bodies continue visible. The soil does...the soil. Britain contains to reward the conqueror, mines of gold and silver, and other metals. The sea produces pearls, but of a dark and livid colour....

...rains, and overcast with clouds. " It is otherwise fertile, and yields corn in plenty. Vegeta" tion is quick in shooting up, and slow in coming to " maturity...." the constant moisture of the atmosphere, and the darop" ness of the soil." — LIFE OF AGBICOLA. LXVIL If false, its own reward was bliss supreme ;...

...certainly the meaning to be here attached to it. Murphy, in his translation, thus renders the passage : " The soil does not afford either the vine, the olive,...moisture of the atmosphere and the dampness of the soil." So also, in a translation edited by Richard Grenewey, fol. 1612, it is said, " The soile, setting aside...

...west, nor rising in the east, but always moving above the hori/on. The cause of this phenomenon mav be, that the surface of the earth, towards the northern...yields corn in great plenty. Vegetation is quick in shoot- liOO ing up, and slow in coming to maturity. Both effects are _ '"' reducible to the same cause,...

...island, so very short, that between the last gleam of day and the returning dawn the interval is scarce hout recalling Milton's description of the building...Rose like an exhalation, . . . Built like a temple, mines of gold and silver, and other metals. The sea produces pearls, but of a dark and livid colour....