"Call with loud voice the Sisterhood, that dwell On floating cloud, wide wave, or bubbling well; 615 Stamp with charm'd foot, convoke the alarmed Gnomes From golden beds, and adamantine domes; Each from her sphere with beckoning arm invite, Curl'd with red flame, the Vestal Forms of light. Close all your spotted wings, in lucid ranks 620 Press with your bending knees the crowded banks, Cross your meek arms, incline your wreathed brows, And win the Goddess with unwearied vows. "Oh, wave, HYGEIA! o'er BRITANNIA'S throne Thy serpent-wand, and mark it for thy own; 625 Lead round her breezy coasts thy guardian trains, Her nodding forests, and her waving plains; Shed o'er her peopled realms thy beamy smile, And with thy airy temple crown her isle!" The GODDESS ceased,--and calling from afar 630 The wandering Zephyrs, joins them to her car; Mounts with light bound, and graceful, as she bends, Whirls the long lash, the flexile rein extends; On whispering wheels the silver axle slides, Climbs into air, and cleaves the crystal tides; 635 Burst from its pearly chains, her amber hair Streams o'er her ivory shoulders, buoy'd in air; Swells her white veil, with ruby clasp confined Round her fair brow, and undulates behind; The lessening coursers rise in spiral rings, 640 Pierce the slow-sailing clouds, and stretch their shadowy wings. CONTENTS OF THE NOTES. CANTO I. Rosicrucian machinery. 73 All bodies are immersed in the matter of heat. Particles of bodies do not touch each other. 97 Gradual progress of the formation of the earth, and of plants and animals. Monstrous births 101 Fixed stars approach towards each other, they were projected from chaos by explosion, and the planets projected from them 105 An atmosphere of inflammable air above the common atmosphere principally about the poles 123 Twilight fifty miles high. Wants further observations 126 Immediate cause of volcanos from steam and other vapours. They prevent greater earthquakes 152 Conductors of heat. Cold on the tops of mountains 176 Phosphorescent light in the evening from all bodies 177 Phosphoric light from calcined shells. Bolognian stone. Experiments of Beccari and Wilson 182 Ignis fatuus doubtful 189 Electric Eel. Its electric organs. Compared to the electric Leyden phial 202 Discovery of fire. Tools of steel. Forests subdued. Quantity of food increased by cookery 212 Medusa originally an hieroglyphic of divine wisdom 218 Cause of explosions from combined heat. Heat given out from air in respiration. Oxygene looses less heat when converted into nitrous acid than in any other of its combinations 226