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❝ planted in doubt-scarcity ensued.

Then the monopoly

66 was easier managed-sickness ensued.

In some districts

"the languid living left the bodies of their numerous dead

"unburied.".

-Short History of the English transactions

in the East Indies, page 145.

NOTE o, p. 44.

Nine times have Brama's wheels of lightning hurl'd

His awful presence o'er the alarmed world.

Among the sublime fictions of the Hindoo mythology, it is one article of belief, that the deity Brama has descended nine times upon the world in various 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. 45.

Shall Seriswattee wave her hallowed wand!

And Camdeo bright, and Ganesa sublime—

Camdeo 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 a, p. 55.

The noon of manhood to a myrtle shade!

Sacred to Venus is the myrtle shade.-DRYDEN.

NOTE b, p. 61.

Thy woes, Arion !

Falconer in his poem the Shipwreck speaks of himself by

the name of Arion.

See FALCONER's Shipwreck, canto 111.

NOTE c, p. 61.

The robber Moor!

See SCHILLER's tragedy of the Robbers, scene v.

NOTE d, p. 63.

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. 63.

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 Poltowa), "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 re"solved to brave the seasons as he had done his enemies,

"and ventured to make long marches during this mortal

"cold.

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It was in one of these marches that two thousand

men fell down dead with cold before his eyes."

NOTE f, p. 64.

-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. 66.

And part, like Ajut,—never to return !

See the history of AJUT AND ANNINGAIT in the Rambler.