f or unfrequented part of
any island.]

[fi]

_How beauteous are their skins, how softly all_
_The forms of Beauty wrap them like a pall_.--[MS. D. erased.]

[fj] {602} _Glares with his mountain eye_--.--[MS. D. erased.]

[377] [The _Morning Chronicle_, November 6, 1822, prints the following
proclamation of Jose Maria Carreno, Commandant-General of Panama:
"Inhabitants of the Isthmus! The Genius of History, which has everywhere
crowned our arms, announces peace to Colombia.... From the banks of
Orinoco to the towering summits of Chimborazo not a single enemy exists,
and those who proudly marched towards the abode of the ancient children
of the Sun have either perished or remain prisoners expecting our
clemency."]

[378] [Compare "a wise man's sentiment," as quoted by Andrew Fletcher of
Saltoun: "He believed if a man were permitted to make all the Ballads,
he need not care who should make the Laws."--_An Account of a
Conversation, etc._, 1704, p. 10.]

[fk] {603} _Than all the records History's annals rear_.--[MS. D.
erased.]

[379] [Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832), at a meeting of the
_Academie des inscriptions_, at Paris, September 17, 1822, announced the
discovery of the alphabet of hieroglyphics.]

[380] [So, too, Shelley, in his Preface to the _Revolt of Islam_, speaks
of "that more essential attribute of Poetry, the power of awakening in
others sensations like those which animate my own bosom."]

[fl] {604}

_And she herself the daughter of the Seas_
_As full of gems and energy as these_.--[MS. D. erased.]

[381] {605}[George Stewart was born at Ronaldshay (circ. 1764), but was
living at Stromness in 1780 (where his father's house, "The White
House," is still shown), when, on the homeward voyage of the Resolution,
Cook and Bligh were hospitably entertained by his parents. He was of
honourable descent. His mother's ancestors were sprung from a
half-brother of Mary Stuart's, and his father's family dated back to
1400. When he was at Timor, Bligh gave a "description of the pirates"
for purposes of identification by the authorities at Calcutta and
elsewhere. "George Stewart, midshipman, aged 23 years, is five feet
seven inches high, good complexion, dark hair, slender made ... small
face, and black eyes; tatowed on the left breast with a star," etc.
Lieutenant Bligh took Stewart with him, partly in return for the
"civilities" at Stromness, but also because "he was a seaman, and had