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NOTES.




    Note 1, page 4, line 14.
    And sighing through the feathery canes, &c.

    The canes in some parts of the American forests form a thick undergrowth for many hundred miles.—See Hodgson's Letters from North America, vol. i. p. 242.

    Note 2 page 5, line 9.
    And for their birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell.

    Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described.

    "I have seen
    A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
    Of inland ground, applying to his ear
    The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell;
    To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul
    Listen'd intently, and his countenance soon
    Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within
    Were heard—sonorous cadences! whereby,
    To his belief, the monitor express'd
    Mysterious union with its native sea.
    —Even such a shell the universe itself
    Is to the ear of Faith."—The Excursion.

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