ged to disregard all the bearings and distances given in the
journal.]

[Footnote 49: The cross-staff had not then come into use, and it was
never of much service in low latitudes.]

[Footnote 50: It was also resolved to establish in the city of
Washington a Latin-American Memorial Library, wherein should be
collected all the historical, geographical, and literary works, maps,
and manuscripts, and official documents relating to the history and
civilization of America, _such library to be solemnly dedicated on the
day on which the United States celebrates the fourth centennial of the
discovery of America_.]

[Footnote 51: Published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.]

[Footnote 52: Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.]

[Footnote 53: NOTE.--Those marked * were left behind, in the fort, at La
Navidad, and perished there.]

[Footnote 54: NOTE.--The names of the crew are on the Madrid monument.]

[Footnote 55: Randolph Rogers, an American sculptor of eminence, was
born in Waterloo, N. Y., in 1825; died at Rome, in the same State, aged
sixty-seven, January 14, 1892.]

[Footnote 56: Mr. George Sumner, a painstaking investigator, states that
after diligent search he is unable to find any other inscription to the
memory of Columbus in the whole of Spain.

At Valladolid, where he died, and where his body lay for some years,
there is none, so far as he could discover; neither is there any trace
of any at the Cartuja, near Seville, to which his body was afterward
transferred, and in which his brother was buried. It is (he writes in
1871) a striking confirmation of the reproach of negligence, in regard
to the memory of this great man, that, in this solitary inscription in
old Spain, the date of his death should be inaccurately given.--Major's
"Letters of Columbus," 1871.

(The Madrid and Barcelona statues were erected in 1885 and 1888
respectively.)--S. C. W.]

[Footnote 57: Since writing this the Lotto portrait has been selected.]

[Footnote 58: For an English metrical translation, see _post_, WIFFEN.]

[Footnote 59: Died at Aldworth October 6, 1892.]

NEW YORK CELEBRATED THE TERCENTENARY.

The managers of the World's Columbian Exposition have prided themselves
upon being the first to celebrate any anniversary of the Columbian
discovery, but this credit really belongs to the Tammany Society of New
York, and the second place of honor belongs to the Massachusetts
Historical Society of Boston. The Tammany Societ