NOTES
ON THE FIRST PART.
Note a.Page 14, line 21.
Up springs at every step to claim a tear.
I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?"—And an echo answered, "Where are they? " From an Arabic MS.
Note b.P. 18, l. 5.
Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!
When a traveller, who was surveying the ruins of Rome, expressed a desire to possess some relic of its ancient grandeur, Poussin, who attended him, stooped down, and, gathering up a handful of earth shining with small grains of porphyry, "Take this home," said he, "for your cabinet; and say boldly, Questa è Roma Antica."
Note c.P. 18, l. 32.
The church-yard yews round which his fathers sleep.
Every man, like Gulliver in Liliput, is fastened to some spot of earth by the thousand small threads which habit and association are continually stealing over him. Of these, perhaps, one of the strongest is here alluded to.
When the Canadian Indians were once solicited to emigrate, "What!" they replied, "shall we say to the bones of our fathers, Arise, and go with us into a foreign land?" Hist. des Indes, par Raynal, vi. 21.
Note d.P. 19, 1. 3.
So, when he breath'd his firm yet fond adieu.
See Hawkesworth's Voyages, ii. 181.
Another very affecting instance of local attachment is related of his
