tines
for speaking of themselves as a _raza latino-americana_,
instead of _hispano-americana_.

15. =arcano=, _secret_, seems to have the force here of a
_secret ark_, or _secret sanctuary_, which is broken open
that its secrets may be disclosed.

=154.=--6-10. These lines refer, of course, to the
Christian religion, spoken of symbolically as an _altar_,
which has replaced the heterogeneous pagan cults of
ancient Rome, and which the Spaniards first brought to
America.
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11. =ciclopeas=: note the omission of the accent on _o_
that the word may rime with =ideas=.

=155.=--5. =Tequendama=: see in the _Vocab_. Several
Colombian poets, including Don Jose Joaquin Ortiz and
Dona Agripina Montes del Valle, have written odes to this
famous waterfall. See Menendez y Pelayo, _Ant. Poetas
Hisp.-Am._, II; and _Parnaso colombiano_, II, Bogota,
1887.

17-18. A revolutionary hero, Antonio Ricaurte (b. 1786),
blew up the Spanish powder magazine on the summit of a
hill near San Mateo, and lost his life in the explosion.
See =Mateo= in _Vocab_.

=156.=--5. The colors of the Peruvian flag are red
and white, mainly red. The red,--symbolical of
bloodshed,--shall be largely replaced by the golden color
of ripening grain,--symbolical of industry.

8. Caracas, where Bolivar was born, lies at the foot of
Mount Avila.

11. This line, and line 16, would indicate that
=Atlantida= was written soon after the war, begun in 1876,
between Chile and the allied forces of Bolivia and Peru,
in which Chile was victorious.

12-15. When this was written there was little immediate
prospect of other railways than the narrow-gage road from
Oruro to the Chilean frontier, about five hundred miles in
length; but now Bolivia has the promise of becoming the
railway center of lines connecting both Argentina and
Chile with Peru. These lines are now completed or
building.

27. Andrade died in 1882, and seven years after his death,
in 1889, the emperor Dom Pedro II was deposed, and a
republican form of government was adopted by Brazil.

=157.=--3. Andrade now sings of his own country, hence
=iDe pie para cantarla!=

8. There is a larger immigration of Europeans into
Argentina than into any other South-American country. The page 285
immigrants come mostly from northern Italy and
from Spain.

12-16. As the =Atlantida= was the last poetic work of
Andrade, these lines may refe