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    Note 18, page 81, lines 10 and 11.

    Then the broad lonely sun-rise!—and the plash
    Into the sounding waves!—

    De Humboldt, in describing the burial of a young Asturian at sea, mentions the entreaty of the officiating priest, that the body, which had been brought upon deck during the night, might not be committed to the waves until after sun-rise, in order to pay it the last rites according to the usage of the Romish church.

     

    Note 19, page 82, line last.
    Oh art thou not where there is no more sea?

    "And there was no more sea."—Rev. chap. xxi. v. 1.

     

    Note 20, page 86, lines 5 and 6.

    And o'er the Andes-torrents borne his form,
    Where our frail bridge hath quiver'd midst the storm.

    The bridges over many deep chasms amongst the Andes are pendulous, and formed only of the fibres of equinoctial plants. Their tremulous motion has afforded a striking image to one of the stanzas in "Gertrude of Wyoming."

    "Anon some wilder portraiture he draws.
    Of nature's savage glories he would speak;
    The loneliness of earth, that overawes,
    Where, resting by the tomb of old Cacique,

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