Eternities of the Circle of Infinity; participate of every state of Existence without changing; and reform and renovate every thing without the loss of it.

The three Plenitudes of Happiness: Participation of every nature, with a plenitude of One predominant; conformity to every cast of genius and character, possessing superior excellence in One; the Love of all Beings and Existences, but chiefly concentered in One object, which is God: and in the predominant One of each of these will the Plenitude of Happiness consist.>> -Triads of Bardism, 40, 38, 45.

Note 19, page 199, col. 2.

he struck the harp

To Owen's praise.

<< I will extol the generous Hero, descended from the race of Roderic, the bulwark of his country, a Prince eminent for his good qualities, the glory of Britain: Owen, the brave and expert in arms, that neither

hoardeth nor coveteth riches.

« Three fleets arrived, vessels of the main, three powerful fleets of the first rate, furiously to attack him on the sudden : one from Iwerddon," the other full of well-armed Lochlynians, making a grand appearance on the floods; the third from the transmarine Normans, which was attended with an immense though successless toil.

<< The dragons of Mona's sons were so brave in action, that there was a great tumult on their furious attack; and before the prince himself there was vast confusion, havoc, conflict, honourable death, bloody

battle, horrible consternation, and upon Tal Mavra, a

thousand banners: there was an outrageous carnage, and the rage of spears and hasty signs of violent indig

nation. Blood raised the tide of the Menai, and the crimson of human gore stained the brine. There were glittering cuirasses, and the agony of gashing wounds, and the mangled warriors prostrate before the chief, distinguished by his crimson lance. Loegria was put into confusion; the contest and confusion was great, and the glory of our Prince's wide-wasting sword shall be celebrated in an hundred languages to give him his merited praise.»-Panegyric upon Owen Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, by GWALCHMAI the son of Melir, in the year 1157. EVANS's Specimens of Welsh Poetry.

Note 20, page 200, col. 1.

Dinevawr.

Dinas Vawr, the Great Palace, the residence of the Princes of Deheubarth, or South Wales. This also was erected by Rhodri Mawr.

Note 21, page 200, col. 1.

Hoel seized the throne.

I have taken some liberties here with the history. Hoel kept possession of the throne nearly two years; he then went to Ireland to claim the property of his mother Pyvog, the daughter of an Irish chieftain; in the mean time David seized the government. Hoel raised all the force he could to recover the crown, but after a severe conflict was wounded and defeated. turned to Ireland with the remains of his army, which probably consisted chiefly of Irishmen, and there died of his wounds.--Cambrian Biography.

Ireland.

He re

Note 22, page 201, col. 1.

hast thou known the consummated crime,

And heard Cynetha's fate?

The history of Cynetha and his brothers is hovery nestly related in the Pentarchia.

Cadwallonis erat primavus jure Cynetha;
Prob pudor! hunc oculis patruus privavit Oenus
Testiculisque simul, fundum dum raptat avitum.
Houel ab irato suspensus rege Johanne,

Et Leolinus, eum privarunt lumine fratres.

This curious summary of Welsh history still remains unprinted.

Note 23, page 202, col. 2.

As thy fair uplands lessened on the view.

« Two of the names of Britain were derived from its hills: Clas Merddin, the high lands in the sea, and Clas Meiddin, the hilly lands or fields.»-E. WILLIAMS's Poems.

Note 24, page 202, col. 2.
Seen, low lying, in the haze of morn.
What sailors call cape Fly-away.

Note 25, page 204, col. 1.
Saint Cyric.

spiritu, regi mente. Quæ utraque diffusa per membra omnia, æternæ molis vigorem exerceant. corporibus nostris commertia sunt spiritalia, ita in profundis Oceani nares quasdam mundi constitutas, per quas emissi anhelitus, vel reducti, modo efílent maria quomodo revocent.»-Solinus, cap. 36.

the deck

« I suppose the waters,» says Pietro Martire, « to be driven about the globe of the earth by the incessant moving and impulsion of the heavens, and not to be swallowed up and cast out again by the breathing of Demogorgon, as some have imagined, because they see the seas by increase and decrease, to flow and reflow.» Dec. 3, c. 6.

Note 30, page 204, col. 1.

gentle airs which breathed,

Or seemed to breathe, fresh fragrance from the shore.

« Our first notice of the approach of land was the fragrant and aromatic smell of the continent of South America, or of the islands in its vicinity, which we sensibly perceived as a squall came from that quarter.»>M'KINNEN'S Tour through the British West Indies. Dogs always are sensible when land is near, before it can be seen.

Note 31, page 205, col. 1.

Low nets of interwoven reeds.

« And for as much as I have made mention of their houses, it shall not be greatly from my purpose to describe in what manner they are builded: they are made round, like bells or round pavilions. Their frame is raysed of exceeding high trees, set close together, and fast rampaired in the ground, so standing aslope, and bending inward, that the toppes of the trees joyne together, and bear one against another, having also within the house certain strong and short proppes or posts, which susteyne the trees from falling. They cover them with the leaves of date trees and other trees strongly compact and hardened, wherewith they make them close from winde and weather. At the short posts, or proppes, within the house, they tie ropes of the cotton of gossampine trees, or other ropes made of certain long and rough roots, much like unto the shrubbe called Spartum, whereof in old time they used to make bands for vines, and gables and ropes for shippes. These they tie overthwart the house from post to post; on these they lay as it were certain mattresses made of the cotton of gossampine trees, which grow plentifully in these islandes. This cotton the Spanyards call Algodon, and the Italians Bombasine, and thus they sleepe in hanging beddes.»-PIETRO MARTIRE.

Note 32, page 205, col. 1.

Will ye believe

The wonders of the ocean? how its shoals.
Sprung from the wave.

I have somewhere seen an anecdote of a sailor's mother, who believed all the strange lies which he told her for his amusement, but never could be persuaded to believe there could be in existence such a thing as a flying fish. A Spanish author, who wrote before the voyage of Columbus, describes these fish as having been seen on the coast of Flanders. " Hay alli unos pescados que vuelan sobre el agua; algunos dellos atravesaban volando por encima de las galeras, e aun algunos dellos caian dentro.>> Coronica de D. Pero Nino.

«At Barbadoes the negroes, after the example of the Charaibs, take the flying fish very successfully in the dark; they spread their nets before a light, and disturb the water at a small distance; the fish, rising eagerly, fly towards the light, and are intercepted by the nets.»> -MKINNEN. These flying fishes, says the writer of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage, are like men professing two trades, and thrive at neither.

Note 33, page 205, col. 1.

Language cannot paint Their splendid tints!

Atkins, with some feeling describes the Dolphin as a glorious coloured fish. A laboured description of its beauty would not have conveyed so lively a sense of admiration. He adds, quite naturally, that it is of dry taste, but makes good broth.-Voyage to Guinea in his Majesty's Ships the Swallow and Weymouth.

Herbert has given this fish a very extraordinary character, upon the authority of the ancients.

<< The dolphin is no bigger than a salmon, it glitters in the ocean with a variety of beautiful colours; has few scales; from its swiftness and spirit metonymically sirnamed the Prince and Arrow of the sea; celebrated by many learned Pens in sundry Epithets; Philanthropoi, for affecting men, and Monogamoi, for their turtle constancy; generated they be of sperme, nourisht like In fumen, imbrace, join, and go to months great. ciem versi dulces celebrant hymenæos Delphines, similes hominis complexibus hærent: A careful husband over his gravid associate, detesting incest, abhorring bigamy, tenderly affecting Parents, whom, when 300 years old, they feed and defend against hungry fishes; and, when dead, (to avoid the Shark and like marine Tyrants) carry them ashore, and there (if Aristotle, Elyan, and Pliny, erre not) inhume and bedew their Sepulchres; they were glad of our company, as it were affecting the sight and society of men, many hundred miles in an eager and unwearied pursuit, frisking about us; and as a Poet observed,

Undique dans saltus, multaque aspergine rorant,
Emurguntque iterum, redeuntque sub æquora rursus,
Inque chori ludunt speciem lascivaque jactant
Corpore, et acceptum patulis mare naribus efflant.
HERBERT'S Travels.

Note 34, page 206, col. 1.

The Stranger's House.

<< There is in every village of the Susquehanual Indians, a vacant dwelling called the Stranger's Blouse. When a traveller arrives within hearing of a village, he stops and halloos, for it is deemed uncivil to enter abruptly. Two old men lead him to the house, and then go round to the inhabitants, telling them a stranger is arrived fatigued and hungry. They send them all they can spare, bring tobacco after they are refreshed, and then ask questions whence they come and whither they

Note 35, page 206, col. 1.

-- а гаce

Mightier than they, and wiser, and by Heaven

Beloved and favoured mors.

«They are easily persuaded that the God that made Englishmen is a greater God than theirs, because he hath so richly endowed the English above themselves. But when they hear that about 1600 years ago England and the inhabitants thereof were like unto themselves, and since have received from God clothes, books, etc. they are greatly affected with a secret hope concerning themselves.» A Key into the language of America, by ROGER WILLIAMS, 1643.

Note 36, page 206, col. 1.

Her husband's war-polo,

«The war-pole is a small peeled tree painted red, the top and boughs cut off short. It is fixed in the ground opposite the door of the dead warrior, and all his implements of war are hung on the short boughs of it till they rot. »ADAIR.

This author, who knew the manners of the North American Indians well, though he formed a most wild theory to account for them, describes the rites of mourning. The widow, through the long term of her weeds, is compelled to refrain from all public company and diversions, at the penalty of an adultress, and likewise to go with flowing hair, without the privilege of oil to anoint it. The nearest kinsmen of the deceased husband keep a very watchful eye over her conduct in this respect. The place of interment is also calculated to wake the widow's grief, for he is entombed in the house under her bed; and if he was a war-leader, she is obliged, for the first moon, to sit in the day-time under his mourning war-pole, which is decked with all his martial trophies, and must be heard to cry with bewailing notes. But none of them are fond of that month's supposed religious duty, it chills, or sweats and wastes them so exceedingly, for they are allowed no shade or shelter.»>

Note 37, page 207, col. 1.

Battlements-which shone

Like silver in the sunshine.

So dazzlingly white were the houses at Zempoalla, that one of the Spaniards galloped back to Cortes to tell him the walls were of silver.-BERNAL DIAZ, 30.

Torquemada also says, « that the temple and palace courts at Mexico were so highly polished, that they actually shone like burnished gold or silver in the sun.>> -T. 1, p. 251.

I have described Aztlan like the cities which the Spaniards found in New Spain. How large and how magnificent they were may be learnt from the True History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz. This delightful work has been rendered into English by Mr Keating, and if the reader has not seen it, he may thank me for recommending it to his notice.

Gomera's description of Zempoallan will show, that cities as splendid in their appearance as Aztlan did exist among the native Americans.

came with smiling countenance, and presented unto them divers kinde of floures and sundry fruites which none of our menue had heretofore seene. These people came without feare among the ordinance; with this pompe, triumphe, and joy, they were received into the Citie, which seemed a beautiful Garden: for the trees were so greene and high that scarcely the houses appeared.

<< Sixe horsemen, which hadde gone before the army to discover, returned backe as Cortes was entering into the Citie, saying, that they had seene a great house and Court, and that the walles were garnished with silver. Cortes commanded them to proceed on, willing them not to shew any token of wonder of any thing that they should see. All the streetes were replenished with people, whichce stoode gapping and wondering at the horses and straungers. And passing through a great market place, they saw, on their right hand a great walled house made of lyme and stone, with loupe holes and towers, whited with playster that shined like silver, being so well burnished and the sunne glistering upon it, and that was the thing that the Spaniards thought had beene walles of silver. I doe believe that with the imagination and great desire which they had of golde and silver, all that shined they deemed to be of the same metall.»-Conquest of the Weast India.

Cortes himself says of Cholulla, that he counted above four hundred temple towers in that city; and the city of Iztapalapa, he says, contained from 12,000 to 15,000 inhabitants.—Carta de Relacion, 16, 20.

Each held a burning censer in his hand.

Tendilli, says the old translator of Gomara, according to their usance, did his reverence to the Captaine, burning frankincense, and little strawes touched in bloud of his own bodie. And at Chiauiztlan, the Lord tokea little chafyng-dishe in his hande, and cast into it a certaine gum, whyche savoured in sweete smel much like unto frankincense; and with a censer he smoked Cortes, with the ceremonye they use in theyr salutations to theyr Gods and nobilitie. So also the Tlascallan Embassadors burnt copal before Cortes, having thrice made obeicence, and they touched the ground with their hands, and kissed the earth.

The nexte day in the morning, the Spaniards came to Chololla, and there came out near ten thousand Indians to receyve him, with their Captaines in good order. Many of them presented unto him bread, foules, and roses and every Captayne, as he approached, welcomed Cortes, and then stood aside, that the rest, in order, mighte come unto him; and when he came entering into the citie, all the other citizens receyved him, marvelling to see such men and horses.