commanded his men to halt, and _went up
alone_. HERRERA, I.x. 1.

NOTE y.

_Hung in thy chamber, buried in thy grave!_

I always saw them in his room, and he ordered them to be buried with
his body. F. COL. c. 86.

NOTE z.

_Thy reverend form_

His person, says Herrera, had an air of grandeur. His hair, from many
hardships, had long been grey. In him you saw a man of an
unconquerable courage, and high thoughts; patient of wrongs, calm in
adversity, ever trusting in God:--and, had he lived in antient times,
statues and temples would have been erected to him without number,
and his name would have been placed among the stars.

NOTE a.

_Swept--till the voyager, in the desert air,_

With my own eyes I saw kingdoms as full of people, as hives are full
of bees; and now where are they?
LAS CASAS.

NOTE b.

_Here, in His train, shall arts and arms attend,_

'There are those alive,' said an illustrious orator, 'whose memory
might touch the two extremities. Lord Bathurst, in 1704, was of an
age to comprehend such things--and, if his angel had then drawn up
the curtain, and, whilst he was gazing with admiration, had pointed
out to him a speck, and had told him, "Young man, there is
America--which, at this day, serves for little more than to amuse you
with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you
taste of death,"' &c. BURKE in 1775.

NOTE c.

_Assembling here, &c._

How simple were the manners of the early colonists! The first
ripening of any European fruit was distinguished by a
family-festival. Garcilasso de la Vega relates how his dear father,
the valorous Andres, collected together in his chamber seven or eight
gentlemen to share with him three asparaguses, the first that ever
grew on the table-land of Cusco. When the operation of dressing them
was over (and it is minutely described) he distributed the two
largest among his friends; begging that the company would not take it
ill, if he reserved the third for himself, _as it was a thing from
Spain_.

North America became instantly an asylum for the oppressed;
huguenots, and catholics, and sects of every name and country. Such
were the first settlers in Carolina and Maryland, Pennsylvania and
New England. Nor is South America altogether without a claim to the
title. Even now, while I am writing, the antient house of Braganza is
on its passage across the Atlantic,

Cum sociis, natoque, Penatibus, et magnis dis.

NOTE d.