"most
musical, most melancholy," in the Maid's Tragedy, "Lay a garland on my
grave."]

[Footnote 62: The bay of St Ives.]

[Footnote 63: _Feniculum vulgare_, or wild fennel, common on the
northern coast of Cornwall.]

[Footnote 64: Revel is a country fair.]

[Footnote 65: It is a common idea in Cornwall, that when any person is
drowned, the voice of his spirit may be heard by those who first pass
by.]

[Footnote 66: The passage folded down was the 109th Psalm, commonly
called "the imprecating psalm." I extract the most affecting passages:--

"May his days be few."

"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

"Let there be none to extend mercy."

"Let their name be blotted out, because he slayed even the broken in
heart."]

[Footnote 67: The people of the country consult the spirit of the well
for their future destiny, by dropping a pebble into it, striking the
ground, and other methods of divination, derived, no doubt, from the
Druids.--_Polwhele._]

[Footnote 68: Bay of St Michael's Mount.]

[Footnote 69: The blue jay of the Mississippi. See Chateaubriand's
Indian song in "Atala."]

[Footnote 70: Called the Flying Dutchman, the phantom ship of the Cape.]

[Footnote 71: Sudden storms are very common in this bay.]

[Footnote 72: A wild flower of the most beautiful blue, adorning
profusely, in spring, the green banks of lanes and hedgerows.]

[Footnote 73: Called _Chickell_, in Cornwall, the wheat-ear. This should
have been mentioned before, where the small well is spoken of in the
garden-plot:--

"From time to time, a small bird dipped its bill."]

[Footnote 74: Alluding to the well-known story.]

[Footnote 75: Having gained the University prize the first year.]

[Footnote 76: J. P. Miles, Esq., whose fine collection of paintings, at
his magnificent seat, Leigh Court, is well known.]

[Footnote 77: Married, whilst these pages were in the press, to a son of
my early friend.]

[Footnote 78: A wild, desolate, and craggy vale, so called most
appropriately, and forming a contrast to the open downs of Fayland, and
the picturesque beauties of Brockley.]

[Footnote 79: Langford Court, the seat of the late Right Hon. Hely
Addington.]

[Footnote 80: The Rev. Thomas Wickham, Rector of Yatton.]

[Footnote 81: Langhorne, the poet, Rector of Blagdon.]

[Footnote 82: Mrs Hannah More, of Barley-Wood, near Wrington, since
dead.]

[Footnote 83: The Rector of Wrington, Mr