“If any place can be said in any respect to have similar features to the western park of ‘Van-shoo-yuen,’ which I have seen this day, it is at Lowther Hall in Westmoreland, which (when I knew it many years ago) ...  I thought might be reckoned ... the finest scene in the British dominions.”

See Barrow’s ‘Travels in China’, p. 134.—­Ed.]

[Footnote E:  150 miles north-east of Pekin.  See a description of them in Sir George Stanton’s ’Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China’ (from the papers of Lord Macartney), London, 1797, vol. ii. ch. ii.  See also ’Encyclopaedia Britannica’, ninth edition, article “Gehol.”—­Ed.]

[Footnote F:  Compare ‘Paradise Lost’, iv. l. 242.—­Ed.]

[Footnote G:  Compare ‘Kubla Khan’, ll. 1, 2: 

  ’In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
  A stately pleasure-dome decree.’

Ed.]

[Footnote H:  The Hawkshead district.—­Ed.]

[Footnote I:  Compare ‘Michael’, vol. ii. p. 215, ‘Fidelity’, p. 44 of this vol., etc.—­Ed.]

[Footnote K:  See Virgil, ‘AEneid’ viii. 319.—­Ed.]

[Footnote L:  See Polybius, ‘Historiarum libri qui supersunt’, vi. 20, 21; and Virgil, ‘Eclogue’ x. 32.—­Ed.]

[Footnote M:  See ‘As You Like It’, act III. scene v.—­Ed.]

[Footnote N:  See ‘The Winter’s Tale’, act IV. scene iii.—­Ed.]

[Footnote O:  See Spenser, ’The Shepheard’s Calendar (May)’.—­Ed.]

[Footnote P:  An Italian river in Calabria, famous for its groves and the fine-fleeced sheep that pastured on its banks.  See Virgil, ‘Georgics’ iv. 126; Horace, ‘Odes’ II. vi. 10.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Q:  The Adriatic Sea.  See Acts xxvii. 27.—­Ed.]

[Footnote R:  An Umbrian river whose waters, when drunk, were supposed to make oxen white.  See Virgil, ‘Georgics’ ii. 146; Pliny, ’Historia Naturalis’, ii. 103.—­Ed.]

[Footnote S:  A hill in the Sabine country, overhanging a pleasant valley.  Near it were the house and farm of Horace.  See his ‘Odes’ I. xvii. 1.—­Ed.]

[Footnote T:  The plain at the foot of the Harz Mountains, near Goslar.—­Ed.]

[Footnote U:  In the Fenwick note to the poem ‘Written in Germany’, vol. ii. p. 73, he says that he “walked daily on the ramparts.”—­Ed.]

[Footnote V:  ’Hercynian forest’.—­(See Caesar, ‘B.  G.’ vi. 24, 25.) According to Caesar it commenced on the east bank of the Rhine, stretching east and north, its breadth being nine days’ journey, and its length sixty.  Strabo (iv. p. 292) included within the Hercynia Silva all the mountains of southern and central Germany, from the Danube to Transylvania.  Later, it was limited to the mountains round Bohemia and extending to Hungary. (See Tacitus, ‘Germania’, 28, 30; and Pliny, ‘Historia Naturalis’, iv. 25, 28.) A trace of the ancient name is retained in the ‘Harz’ mountains, which are clothed everywhere with conifers, Harz=resin.—­Ed.]