_Alp_, or _Alps_—A ridge of mountains which separate the North of Italy from the South of Germany. They are evidently primeval and volcanic, consisting of granite, toadstone, and basalt, and several other substances, containing animal and vegetable recrements, and affording numberless undoubted proofs of the infinite antiquity of the earth, and of the consequent falsehood of the Mosaic chronology. Footnote 249: _Turn the stiff screw_, &c.—The harmony and imagery of these lines are imperfectly imitated from the following exquisite passage in the _Economy of Vegetation_: “Gnomes, as you now dissect, with hammers fine, The granite rock, the noduled flint calcine; Grind with strong arm the circling Chertz betwixt, Your pure Ka—o—lins and Pe—tunt—ses mixt.” _Canto_ ii. line 297. Footnote 250: [_The windmill_, &c.—This line affords a striking instance of the sound conveying an echo to the sense. I would defy the most unfeeling reader to repeat it over without accompanying it by some corresponding gesture imitative of the action described.—EDITOR.] Footnote 251: _Sweet Enthusiast_, &c.—A term usually applied in allegoric or technical poetry to any person or object to which no other qualifications can be assigned.—_Chambers’s Dictionary._ Footnote 252: [ANNE PLUMPTRE, who made herself known as one of the first introducers of German plays, said: “_People are talking about an Invasion. I am not afraid of an Invasion; I believe the country would be all the happier if_ BUONAPARTE _were to effect a landing and overturn the Government. He would destroy the Church and the Aristocracy, and his government would be better than the one we have_”. Crabb Robinson’s _Diary_ (1810), i. 298.—ED.] Footnote 253: _The smiling infant_—Infancy is particularly interested in the diffusion of the new principles. See the “Bloody Buoy”. See also the following description and prediction: “Here Time’s huge fingers grasp his giant mace, And dash proud Superstition from her base; Rend her strong towers and gorgeous fanes, &c. · · · · · While each light moment, as it passes by, With feathery foot and pleasure-twinkling eye, Feeds from its baby-hand with many a kiss The callow-nestlings of domestic bliss.”—_Botanic Garden._ Footnote 254: _The monster’s back_—Le Monstre Pitt, l’ennemi du genre humain. _See Debates of the legislators of the Great Nation, passim._ Footnote 255: Atque illud prono præceps agitur decursus.—_Catullus._ Footnote 256: STONE.—Better known by the name of WILLIAMS. Footnote 257: We decline printing this rhyme at length, from obvious reasons of delicacy; at the same time that it is so accurate a translation of _pictis puppibus_, that we know not how to suppress it, without doing the utmost injustice to the general spirit of the poem. Footnote 258: