eece, April 19,
1824.

Teems not each ditty with the glorious tale?
Ah! such, alas, the hero's amplest fate.
When granite molders and when records fail,

* * * * *

Pride! bend thine eye from heaven to thine estate,
See how the mighty shrink into a song.
Can volume, pillar, pile, preserve thee great?
Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue,
When Flattery sleeps with thee, and History does thee wrong.

CABOT'S CONTEMPORANEOUS UTTERANCE.

SEBASTIAN CABOT, a navigator of great eminence. Born at Bristol,
England, about 1477. Discovered the mainland of North America. Died
about 1557.

When newes were brought that Don Christopher Colonus, the Genoese, had
discovered the coasts of India, whereof was great talke in all the Court
of King Henry the VII. who then raigned, * * * all men with great
admiration affirmed it to be a thing more divine than humane to saile by
the West into the Easte, where the spices growe, by a chart that was
never before knowen.

THE CAPITULATIONS OF SANTA FE--AGREEMENT OF COLUMBUS WITH FERDINAND AND
ISABELLA.

Sir ARTHUR HELPS. From "The Life of Columbus." [See other extracts,
_post_, _sub nomine_ HELPS.]

1. Christopher Columbus wishes to be made Admiral of the seas and
countries which he is about to discover. He desires to hold this dignity
during his life, and that it should descend to his heirs.

_This request is granted by the King and Queen._

2. Christopher Columbus wishes to be made Viceroy of all the continents
and islands.

_Granted by the King and Queen._

3. He wishes to have a share amounting to a tenth part of the profits of
all merchandise--be it pearls, jewels, or any other thing--that may be
found, gained, bought, or exported from the countries which he is to
discover.

_Granted by the King and Queen._

4. He wishes, in his quality of Admiral, to be made sole judge of all
mercantile matters that may be the occasion of dispute in the countries
which he is to discover.

_Granted by the King and Queen, on condition that this jurisdiction
should belong to the office of Admiral, as held by Don Enriques and
other Admirals._

5. Christopher Columbus wishes to have the right to contribute the
eighth part of the expenses of all ships which traffic with the new
countries, and in return to earn the eighth part of the profits.

_Granted by the King and Queen._

Santa Fe, in th