Note 15. And Camdeo bright, and Ganefa fublime.

Camdeo is the God of Love in the mythology of the Hindoos. Ganefa and Serifwattee correfpond to the Pagan deities, Janus and Minerva.

NOTES ON PART II.

Note I. The noon of manhood to a myrtle fhade!

Sacred to Venus is the myrtle fhade.

Dryden.

Note 2. Thy woes, Arion!] Falconer, in his

poem,

The Shipwreck, fpeaks of himself by the name of Arion.

See Falconer's Shipwreck, Canto III.

Note 3. The Robber Moor.

-See Schiller's tragedy of the Robbers, Scene V.

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Note 4. What millions died that Cæfar might be great.

The

carnage occafioned by the wars of Julius Cæfar has been usually estimated at two millions of men.

Note 5. Or learn the fate that bleeding thousands bore March'd by their Charles to Dneiper's fwampy

fhore.

In this extremity (fays the Biographer of Charles XII. of Sweden, speaking of his military exploits before the battle of Pultowa), the memorable winter of 1709, which was ftill more remarkable in that part of Europe than in France, deftroyed numbers of his troops; for Charles refolved to brave the feafons as he had done his enemies, and ventured to make long marches during this mortal cold. It was in one of thefe marches that two thousand men fell down dead with cold before his eyes.

Note 6. As on Iona's height.

The natives of the island of St. Iona have an opinion,

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that, on certain evenings every year, the tutelary St. Co

lumba is seen on the top of the church fpires counting the furrounding islands, to fee that they have not been funk by the power of witchcraft.

Note 7. And part, like Ajut, never to return! See the history of Ajut and Anningait in the Rambler.

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