NOTE g.

He spoke, and, at his call, a mighty Wind,

The more Christian opinion is, that God, at the length, with eyes of compassion as it were looking downe from heaven, intended even then to rayse those windes of mercy, whereby.......this newe worlde receyved the hope of salvation.—­Certaine Preambles to the Decades of the Ocean.

NOTE h.

Folded their arms and sat;

To return was deemed impossible, as it blew always from home. 
F. Columbus, c. 19.  Nos pavidi—­at pater Anchises—­laetus.

NOTE i.

What vast foundations in the Abyss are there,

Tasso employs preternatural agents on a similar occasion,

Trappassa, et ecco in quel silvestre loco
Sorge improvisa la citta del foco. 
    Gier.  Lib, c. xiii. 33.

Gli incanti d’Ismeno, che ingannano con delusioni, altro non significano, che la falsita delle ragioni, et delle persuasioni, la qual si genera nella moltitudine, et varieta de’ pareri, et de’ discorsi humani.

NOTE k.

ATLANTIC kings their barbarous pomp display’d;

See Plato’s Timaeus; where mention is made of mighty kingdoms, which, in a day and a night, had disappeared in the Atlantic, rendering its waters unnavigable.

NOTE l.

When towers and temples, thro’ the closing wave,

Si quaeras Helicen et Burin, Achaidas urbes,
Invenies sub aquis.

At the destruction of Callao, in 1747, no more than one of all the inhabitants escaped; and he, by a providence the most extraordinary.  This man was on the fort that overlooked the harbour, going to strike the flag, when he perceived the sea to retire to a considerable distance; and then, swelling mountain high, it returned with great violence.  The people ran from their houses in terror and confusion; he heard a cry of Miserere rise from all parts of the city; and immediately all was silent; the sea had entirely overwhelmed it, and buried it for ever in its bosom:  but the same wave that destroyed it, drove a little boat by the place where he stood, into which he threw himself and was saved.  Europ.  Settlements.

NOTE m.

"Land!” and his voice in faltering accents died.

Historians are not silent on the subject.  The sailors, according to Herrera, saw the signs of an inundated country (tierras anegadas); and it was the general expectation that they should end their lives there, as others had done in the frozen sea, ’where St. Amaro suffers no ship to stir backwards or forwards.’  F. Columbus, c. 19.

NOTE n.

Tho’ chang’d my cloth of gold for amice grey—­

Many of the first discoverers, if we may believe B. Diaz and other contemporary writers, ended their days in a hermitage, or a cloister.

NOTE o.

’Twas in the deep, immeasurable cave Of ANDES,