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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1789 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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ecrethaunt of savages, who used tosally forth, auu do great mischiefto the early settlers. In anotherpart of the road, we are shewn,in a bed of stone, a hole about thelength and breadth of a h(5rseshoof: in this were discoveredfifteen or twenty horse-shoes,which it had accumulated by strip-ping them off from such horses ashappened to get entangled in it.The shoes are preserved, andshewn to the curious, at the shopof a neighbouring black-smith. Upon the whole, there is some-thing wildly grand and characte-ristic in the rude scene we havedescribed : and though the workso; art may often give animationand contrast to such scenes; yetstill they are not absolutely ne-cessary :—we can be amused with-out them. But when we intro-duce a landscape on canvas; whenthe eye is to be confined withinthe frame of a picture, and canno longer range among the varie-ties of nature ; the aids of art be-come more necessary, and wewant the castle, the abbey, or thevilla, to draw the scene into co»sequence^
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i* ( 367 ;CURIOUS EPITAPHS. On a CHYMIST, a^XQ lieth to digest, maturate, and amalgamate^ with clay. In Balnea ArenaSy Straium super stratum The risicluum^ tirra damnatay and caput mortnum Or BOYLK GODFREY, Chymist; A man who in this earthly ■ laboratory Pursued various processes to obtain Arcanum iiita, or the secret to live ; Also, aurum njitoe Or the art of getting rather than making gold. Alchymist like he saw All his labour and projection, As mercury in the fire, evaporated in fume. When he dijjhl-ved to his Jirst principles. He departed as poor As the last drops of an alembic; For riches are not poured On the adepts of this world. Though fond of novelty, he carefully avoided The fermentation, effervejceuce, and decripitation, Of this life. Full seventy years his exalted essence Was hermeticailly seald in its terrene matrass: But the radical moisture being exhausted. The elixir vitce spent, And exsicated to a cuticle. He could not suspend longer in his vehicle^ But precipitated

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