Arm’d with her ivory beak, and talon-hands,
80 Descending FICA dives into the sands;
        Chamber’d in earth with cold oblivion lies;
        Nor heeds, ye Suitor-train, your amorous sighs;
        Erewhile with renovated beauty blooms,
        Mounts into air, and moves her leafy plumes.
85 —­Where HAMPS and MANIFOLD, their cliffs among,
        Each in his flinty channel winds along;
        With lucid lines the dusky Moor divides,
        Hurrying to intermix their sister tides.

[When there arises in sleep a painful desire to exert the voluntary motions, it is called the Nightmare or Incubus.  When the sleep becomes so imperfect that some muscular motions obey this exertion of desire, people have walked about, and even performed some domestic offices in sleep; one of these sleep-walkers I have frequently seen:  once she smelt of a tube-rose, and sung, and drank a dish of tea in this state; her awaking was always attended with prodigious surprize, and even fear; this disease had daily periods, and seemed to be of the epileptic kind.]

[Ficus indica. l. 80.  Indian Fig-tree.  Of the glass Polygamy.  This large tree rises with opposite branches on all sides, with long egged leaves; each branch emits a slender flexile depending appendage from its summit like a cord, which roots into the earth and rises again.  Sloan.  Hist. of Jamaica.  Lin.  Spec.  Plant.  See Capri-ficus.]

        Where still their silver-bosom’d Nymphs abhor,
90 The blood-smear’d mansion of gigantic THOR,—­
        —­Erst, fires volcanic in the marble womb
        Of cloud-wrapp’d WETTON raised the massy dome;
        Rocks rear’d on rocks in huge disjointed piles
        Form the tall turrets, and the lengthen’d ailes;

[Gigantic Thor. l. 90.  Near the village of Wetton, a mile or two above Dove-Dale, near Ashburn in Dirbyshire, there is a spacious cavern about the middle of the ascent of the mountain, which still retains the Name of Thor’s house; below is an extensive and romantic common, where the rivers Hamps and Manifold sink into the earth, and rise again in Ham gardens, the seat of John Port, Esq. about three miles below.  Where these rivers rise again there are impressions resembling Fish, which appear to be of Jasper bedded in Limestone.  Calcareous Spars, Shells converted into a kind of Agate, corallines in Marble, ores of Lead, Copper, and Zinc, and many strata of Flint, or Chert, and of Toadstone, or Lava, abound in this part of the country.  The Druids are said to have offered human sacrifices inclosed in wicker idols to Thor.  Thursday had its name from this Deity.