heir lives
there, as others had done in the frozen sea, 'where St. Amaro suffers
no ship to stir backwards or forwards.' F. Columbus, c. 19.

NOTE n.

_Tho' chang'd my cloth of gold for amice grey--_

Many of the first discoverers, if we may believe B. Diaz and other
contemporary writers, ended their days in a hermitage, or a cloister.

NOTE o.

_'Twas in the deep, immeasurable cave Of ANDES,_

Vast indeed must be those dismal regions, if it be true, as
conjectured (Kircher. Mund. Subt. I. 202), that Etna, in her
eruptions, has discharged twenty times her original bulk. Well might
she be called by Euripides (Troades, v. 222) the _Mother of
Mountains;_ yet Etna herself is but 'a mere firework, when compared
to the burning summits of the Andes.'

NOTE p.

_Where PLATA and MARAGNON meet the Main._

Rivers of South America. Their collision with the tide has the effect
of a tempest.

NOTE q.

_Of HURON or ONTARIO, inland seas,_

Lakes of North America. Huron is above a thousand miles in
circumference. Ontario receives the waters of the Niagara, so famous
for its falls; and discharges itself into the Atlantic by the river
St. Lawrence.

NOTE r.

_Hung in the tempest o'er the troubled main;_

The dominion of a bad angel over an unknown sea, _infestandole con
sus torbellinos y tempestades_, and his flight before a Christian
hero, are described in glowing language by Ovalle. Hist, de Chile.
IV. 8.

NOTE s.

_He spoke; and all was silence, all was night!_

These scattered fragments may be compared to shreds of old arras, or
reflections from a river broken and confused by the oar; and now and
then perhaps the imagination of the reader may supply more than is
lost. Si qua latent, meliora putat.

Illud vero perquam rarum ac memoria dignum, etiam suprema opera
artificum imperfectasque tabulas, sicut Irin Aristidis, Tyndaridas
Nicomachi, Medeam Timomachi, et quam diximus Venerem Apellis, in
majori admiratione esse, quam perfecta.

NOTE t.

_The soldier, &c._

In the Lusiad, to beguile the heavy hours at sea, Veloso relates to
his companions of the second watch the story of the Twelve Knights.
L. vi.

NOTE u.

_So Fortune smil'd, careless of sea or land!_

Among those, who went with Columbus, were many adventurers, and
gentlemen of the court. Primero was the game then in fashion. See
Vega, p. 2, lib. iii. c. 9.

NOTE x.

_Yet who but He undaunted could explore_

Many sighed and wept; and ever