main droite. Il y avoit sur le bas d'un roc quelques
lettres gravees, qui ne furent point entendues; mais il parut
clairement que le signe de la main regardoit l'Amerique."

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 t