characteristic in Wordsworth's
addressing an intimate travelling companion in this way. S. T. C., or
Charles Lamb, would have written, as we do, "My dear Jones"; but
Wordsworth addressed his friend as "Dear Sir," and described his sister
as "a Young Lady," and as a "Female Friend."--Ed.]

[Footnote C: In a small pocket copy of the 'Orlando Furioso' of
Ariosto--now in the possession of the poet's grandson, Mr. Gordon
Wordsworth--of which the title-page is torn away, the following is
written on the first page, "My companion in the Alps with Jones. W.
Wordsworth:" also "W. W. to D. W." (He had given it to his sister
Dorothy.) On the last page is written, "I carried this Book with me in
my pedestrian tour in the Alps with Jones. W. Wordsworth." Dorothy
Wordsworth gave this interesting relic to Miss Quillinan, from whose
library it passed to that of its present owner.--Ed.]

[Footnote D: By an evident error, corrected in the first reprint of this
edition (1840). See p. 79.--Ed. [the end of the introductory text to
'Guilt and Sorrow', the next poem in this text.]]

[Footnote E: See Addison's 'Cato', Act 1. Scene i., l. 171:

Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.--Ed.]

[Footnote F: The lyre of Memnon is reported to have emitted melancholy
or chearful tones, as it was touched by the sun's evening or morning
rays.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote G: Compare Pope's 'Windsor Forest', ll. 129, 130;

He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye:
Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky:

Ed.]

[Footnote H: Alluding to crosses seen on the tops of the spiry rocks of
the Chartreuse, which have every appearance of being inaccessible.--W.
W. 1793.]

[Footnote J: Compare Milton's 'Ode on the Nativity', stanza xx.--Ed.]

[Footnote K: Names of rivers at the Chartreuse.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote L: Name of one of the valleys of the Chartreuse.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote M: The river along whose banks you descend in crossing the
Alps by the Simplon Pass---W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote N: Most of the bridges among the Alps are of wood and covered:
these bridges have a heavy appearance, and rather injure the effect of
the scenery in some places.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote P: The Catholic religion prevails here; these cells are, as is
well known, very common in the Catholic countries, planted, like the
Roman tombs, along the roadside.--W. W. 1793.]

[Footnote Q: Crosses commemorative of the deaths of tra