forms, and that he is yet to appear a tenth time, in the figure of a warrior upon a white horse, to cut off'all incorrigible offenders. Avatar is the word used to express his descent. NOTE p, p. 20. Shall Seriswattee wave her hallowed wand! And Camdeo bright, and Ganesa sublimeCamdeo is the God of Love in the mythology of the Hindoos. Ganesa and Seriswattee correspond to the pagan deities Janus and Minerva. NOTES. On Part II. NOTE α, p. 26. The noon of manhood to a myrtle shade! Sacred to Venus is the myrtle shade.-Dryden. NOTE 6, p. 30. Thy woes, Arion! Falconer in his poem, The Shipwreck, speaks of himself by the name of Arion. See Falconer's Shipwreck, Canto III. NOTE c, p. 31. The robber Moor! See Schiller's tragedy of The Robbers, scene v. NOTE d, p. 31. What millions died-that Cæsar might be great! The carnage occasioned by the wars of Julius Cæsar has been usually estimated at two millions of men. NOTE e, p. 31. Or learn the fate that bleeding thousands bore, March'd by their Charles to Dneiper's swampy shore. "In this extremity," (says the biographer of Charles XII. of Sweden, speaking of his military exploits before the battle of Pultowa,) "the memorable winter of 1709, which was still more remarkable in that part of Europe than in France, destroyed numbers of his troops; for Charles resolved to brave the seasons as he had done his enemies, and ventured to make long marches during this mortal cold. It was in one of these marches that two thousand men fell down dead with cold before his eyes." NOTE f, p. 32. As Iona's saint. The natives of the island of Iona have an opinion that on certain evenings every year, the tutelary saint Columba is seen on the top of the church spires, counting the surrounding islands, to see that they have not been sunk by the power of witchcraft. NOTE g, p. 32. And part, like Ajut-never to return! See the history of "Ajut and Anningait" in the Rambler. |