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Memoir Of The Countess Of Derby,
sincerity of his affe & ion for Miss Farren , by raising her to the merited ' rank of a Countess , May 8 , 1797 . ' Soon after this long-expected union had taken place , her Ladyship was introduced at Court , and made one of the procession at the nuptials of the Princess Royal with the Hereditary Prince of ' Wirremburg . Her Ladyship was lately delivered of a still-born child .
We here close our view of the Countess of Derby , leaving it to her own clear and undiminished lustre to speak her future praise ; in rso degree doubting that the rectitude which has preserved her from incurring merited censure in situations the most critical and trying , will enable her to maintain the exalted staiion to which she has arrived with-an honour equal to the virtue which she has procure ! it . *
Description Of The Source Of The Rhine,
DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE OF THE RHINE ,
WITH . THE ADJACENT SCENERY . fFKOM MISS WILLIAMS ' S TOITK TN . SWITZSRI-AND , JUST PUILISHEB , ]
ID EFORE we bid adieu to the Alpine regions , we went up the valley to visit the spot from whence the Rhine draws its first and principal source , at . the foot of the Glacier which we had visited the preceding day , but some miles nearer the mass . of mountains of which that Glacier , is a branch , There are three sources , to this celebrated river ; one , called the Lower Rhine , rises from that part of the
mountain of St . Gothard which stretches bejiind the valley , of Urscren , and flows along the Grison valley of Tavelsch : the middle source springs from the western extremity of the Glacier of the Vogelsberg , and flowing through the valley of . Medels , joins the former , at the distanceof some leagues , near the Abbey of Disentis ; the Hi gher Rhine , which is said to have been the only branch known to the ancients , proceeding from the mass of mountains formerly called the Adula ,
runs from the eastern extremity of the Vogelsberg , or Bird-mountain , below the point called the Moschelhonr , and there , it is said , was built a temple consecrated to the guardian god of the stream , whose tranquil slumbers Boileau describes in one of his epistles * . ' Au pied du Mont Adule , entre mille roseaux , Le Rhin , tranquille et fier du progrcs . de seseatix ,
Appuye d'une main sur son urne penchante , Dormoit au bruit de son oncie na ' i ' ssante . " Whether Boileau took part of his description from the statue of this river-god in the Thtiiileries , or , what is more probable , the . sculptor borrowed the idea of his statue from the poet , the p lace itself is not unworthy of the divinity .-We were now at the source of that river , whose gentle current had heretofore g lided from its tranquil and solitary abode , to witness the
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Memoir Of The Countess Of Derby,
sincerity of his affe & ion for Miss Farren , by raising her to the merited ' rank of a Countess , May 8 , 1797 . ' Soon after this long-expected union had taken place , her Ladyship was introduced at Court , and made one of the procession at the nuptials of the Princess Royal with the Hereditary Prince of ' Wirremburg . Her Ladyship was lately delivered of a still-born child .
We here close our view of the Countess of Derby , leaving it to her own clear and undiminished lustre to speak her future praise ; in rso degree doubting that the rectitude which has preserved her from incurring merited censure in situations the most critical and trying , will enable her to maintain the exalted staiion to which she has arrived with-an honour equal to the virtue which she has procure ! it . *
Description Of The Source Of The Rhine,
DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE OF THE RHINE ,
WITH . THE ADJACENT SCENERY . fFKOM MISS WILLIAMS ' S TOITK TN . SWITZSRI-AND , JUST PUILISHEB , ]
ID EFORE we bid adieu to the Alpine regions , we went up the valley to visit the spot from whence the Rhine draws its first and principal source , at . the foot of the Glacier which we had visited the preceding day , but some miles nearer the mass . of mountains of which that Glacier , is a branch , There are three sources , to this celebrated river ; one , called the Lower Rhine , rises from that part of the
mountain of St . Gothard which stretches bejiind the valley , of Urscren , and flows along the Grison valley of Tavelsch : the middle source springs from the western extremity of the Glacier of the Vogelsberg , and flowing through the valley of . Medels , joins the former , at the distanceof some leagues , near the Abbey of Disentis ; the Hi gher Rhine , which is said to have been the only branch known to the ancients , proceeding from the mass of mountains formerly called the Adula ,
runs from the eastern extremity of the Vogelsberg , or Bird-mountain , below the point called the Moschelhonr , and there , it is said , was built a temple consecrated to the guardian god of the stream , whose tranquil slumbers Boileau describes in one of his epistles * . ' Au pied du Mont Adule , entre mille roseaux , Le Rhin , tranquille et fier du progrcs . de seseatix ,
Appuye d'une main sur son urne penchante , Dormoit au bruit de son oncie na ' i ' ssante . " Whether Boileau took part of his description from the statue of this river-god in the Thtiiileries , or , what is more probable , the . sculptor borrowed the idea of his statue from the poet , the p lace itself is not unworthy of the divinity .-We were now at the source of that river , whose gentle current had heretofore g lided from its tranquil and solitary abode , to witness the