bafs of Stentor; and delighted with the notes of Mifurus's trumpet. In short, as the difference of tastes in mufic is infinitely varied, there are in this place an almost innumerable band of musicians of all nations, and of all countries of the world, to please them all. For, although one might think that the moft part of thefe people would have found it more fuitable to their affairs to have taken the road to Heaven, where we are told there will be perpetual mufic; yet, either through caprice or libertinifm, they have always chofen to feek the way to the infernal abodes, where Lord Lucifer has conftantly found them employed amongst his musicians.

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excellent on the flute. Cybele attached him to her fervice he followed her for a long time through her travels at length came home with her to Nyfa, where Bacchus reigned. He prefumed to difpute the prize of mufic with. Apollo, who, on winning it, as a punishment for his rashness, caufed him to be tied to a tree, and flayed alive.

The fon of Æolus, god of the winds. After the death of Hector, whofe fervice he had been in,. he entered into the retinue of Eneas, when he fet out for Italy. He excelled in playing on the trumpet; which made him fo extremely proud, that hẹ even defied the Tritons at that exercife; but he was punifhed for this rafhness by a Triton, who, in revenge, pulled him into the fea, and drowned him.

ANOTHER pleasure, which is no lefs delicious, more especially in hot countries, is that of baths and ftoves. Any person who knows ever fo little, must have been informed, that the Romans, in the times of their greatest luxury, and when they entered the moft into a refinement on pleafures, were very nice in regard to this. Befides the public baths, which were very numerous in their capital, there was scarcely any person of tolerable diftinction, but had one in his house, or at his country-feat.

IT is well known to what an height of magnificence their emperors carried their delicacy in this particular; nay, we even ftill fee, by the ruins that remain of them, how beautiful were the edifices which they erected for this ufe, and to which they gave the name of Thermæ. This fenfual delicacy, which they had brought with them from the eaftern countries, which their conquests had over-run, is even to this time, very greatly in cuftom in thofe countries, where the Turks, Perfians, and in general all the Indians, have made it one of the duties of their religion, which they take great care not to fail in, more perhaps through fenfuality than devotion.

To fay, then, that in a country fo hot as Hell, there are no ftoves or baths, would not only be to advance a thing contrary to probability, but even diametrically oppofite to the belief of the church of Rome, which has moft firmly established thefe ftoves under the name of Purgatory (a word which fignifies

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the fame thing) in which the fouls of perfons of diftinction are washed, rubbed down, ftoved, purified, and purged, till they no longer retain any of those fpots which they brought with them out of this world. For as a learned and elegant poet, who wrote two thousand years ago, has said,

Ev'n when the body is to death refign'd,
Some old inherent spots are left behind;
A fullying tincture of corporeal stains,
Deep in the fubftance of the foul remains.
Thus are her fplendours dimm'd, and crufted o'er,
With thofe dark vices that fhe knew before.
For this the fouls a various penance pay
To purge the taint of former crimes away:
Some in the sweeping breezes are refin❜d,
And hung on high to whiten in the wind;
Some cleanse their stains beneath the gushing streams,
And fome rife glorious from the searching flames.
Though all muft fuffer; and, thofe fuff'rings paft,
The clouded minds are purify'd at last.

But when the circling feafons, as they roll,
Have cleans'd the drofs long gather'd round the foul;
When the celeftial fire, divinely bright,

Breaks forth, victorious, in her native light;
Then we, the chofen few, Elysium gain,

And here expatiate on the blifsful plain.

Virg. Eneid, Lib. 6.

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Now if the fouls of good people need all this pu rification, to be free from thofe few ftains which they have contracted, how much greater need is there to erect baths and ftoves for thofe of the wicked, who have far deeper fpots to wash away? Confequently there are all kinds of them in this country, according to the different ftains they have received here above.

BUT, methinks, we have now gone to a fufficient extent as to the origin, fituation, limits, qualities, advantages, prerogatives, and pleafures of Hell; let us therefore pafs to its inhabitants, and enter into fome kind of detail with regard to them, which fhall be neither lefs curious nor lefs inftructive. This fhall be the fubject and matter of the fecond part of this work.

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Men are born for the pleasures of fociety. Thofe in Hell very numerous and entertaining.

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nature, yet, as man is born for society, without variety of company, all thofe delights will be totally infipid, if not intolerably tiresome. This

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