Lansdown Place, Bath.
_Passage in Thomson_ (Vol. vii., p. 67.).--_Steaming_ is clearly the true
reading, and means that the exhalations which _steam_ from the waters are
sent down again in the showers of spring. This will appear still clearer by
reference to a similar passage in Milton's Morning Hymn, which Thomson was
evidently copying:
"Ye mists and exhalations that now rise
From hill or _steaming_ lake, dusky or grey," &c.