Why do I joy the lonely fpot to view,

By artless friendship bleft when life was new?

Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres fublime Peal'd their first notes to found the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began but not to fade.

When all the fifter planets have decay'd;

When rapt in fire the realms of ether glow,

And Heav'n's last thunder fhakes the world below;

Thou, undifmay'd, fhalt o'er the ruin fmile,

And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile!

END OF PART SECOND.

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NOTES ON PART I.

Note 1. And fuch thy ftrength-inspiring aid that bore The hardy Byron to his native fhore.

The following picture of his own diftrefs, given by Byron in his fimple and interefting narrative, juftifies the defeription in p. 10. After relating the barbarity of the Indian Cacique to his child, he proceeds thus :-" A day or two after, we put to fea again, and eroffed the great bay I mentioned we had been at the bottom of, when we first hauled away to the weftward. The land here

was very low and fandy, and fomething like the mouth of a river which discharged itself into the fea, and which had been taken no notice of by us before, as it was so shallow that the Indians were obliged to take every thing out of their canoes, and carry it over land. We rowed up the river four or five leagues, and then took into a branch of it that ran firft to the eastward and then to the northward: here it became much narrower, and the stream exceffively rapid, fo that we gained but little way, though we wrought very hard. At night we landed upon its banks, and had a most uncomfortable lodging, it being a perfect swamp; and we had nothing to cover us, though it rained exceffively. The Indians were little better off than we, as there was no wood here to make their wigwams; fo that all they could do was to prop up the bark, which they carry in the bottom of their canoes, and

fhelter themselves as well as they could to the leeward of it. Knowing the difficulties they had to encounter here, they had provided themselves with fome feal; but we had not a morsel to eat, after the heavy fatigues of the day, excepting a fort of root we faw the Indians make use of, which was very difagreeable to the tafte. We laboured all next day against the ftream, and fared as we had done the day before. The next day brought us to the carrying place. Here was plenty of wood, but nothing to

be

got for fuftenance. We paffed this night as we had frequently done, under a tree; but what we fuffered at this time is not eafy to be expreffed. I had been three days at the oar, without any kind of nourishment except the wretched root above mentioned. I had no fhirt, for it had rotted off by bits. All my clothes confifted of a fhort grieko (fomething like a bear-skin), a piece of red

cloth which had once been a waistcoat, and a ragged

pair of trowsers, without fhoes or ftockings."

Note 2. A Briton and a friend.] Don Patricio Gedd, a Scotch phyfician in one of the Spanish fettlements, hofpitably relieved Byron and his wretched affociates, of which the Commodore speaks in the warmest terms of gratitude.

Note 3. Or yield the lyre of Heav'n another string.

The feven ftrings of Apollo's harp were the fymbolical representation of the feven planets. Herschel, by discovering an eighth, might be faid to add another ftring to the inftrument.

Note 4. The Swedish fage.] Linnæus.