89.
515.

_Eternity_.
'Lost in unsearchable Eternity!' ['Excursion,' Book iii.1.

112.] Since this paragraph was composed, I have read with so much pleasure, in Burnet's _Theory of the Earth_, a passage expressing corresponding sentiments, excited by objects of a similar nature, that I cannot forbear to transcribe it.
'Siquod vero Natura nobis dedit spectaculum, in hac tellure, vere gratum, et philosopho dignum, id semel mihi contigisse arbitror; cum ex celsissima rupe speculabundus ad oram maris Mediterranei, hinc aequor caeruleum, illinc tractus Alpinos prospexi; nihil quidem magis dispar aut dissimile, nec in suo genere, magis egregium et singulare.

Hoc theatrum ego facile praetulerim Romanis cunctis, Graecisve; atque id quod natura hic spectandum exhibet, scenicis ludis omnibus, aut amphitheatri certamiuibus.

Nihil hic elegans aut venustum, sed ingens et magnificum, et quod placet magnitudine sua et quadam specie immensitatis.