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[3] An error of the poet’s: Elijah did not ascend from Carmel, but from the eastern side of Jordan.—(See 2 Kings ii. 7-11.)

[4] See Narrative of Byron’s Shipwreck.—Notes at end of Volume.

[5] A Briton and a friend.—Don Patricio Gedd, a Scotch physician in one of the Spanish settlements, hospitably relieved Byron and his wretched associates, of which the commodore speaks in the warmest terms of gratitude.

[6] The seven strings of Apollo’s harp were the symbolical representation of the seven planets. Herschell, by discovering an eighth, might be said to add another string to the instrument.

[7] Linnæus, the famous Swedish Botanist.

[8] Socrates.

[9] Deep from his vaults, the Loxian murmurs flow.—Loxias is the name frequently given to Apollo by Greek writers; it is met with more than once in the Chœphoræ of Æschylus.

[10] Exodus xvii. 3, 5, 6.

[11] The superstition of the African savages.—See Notes.

[12] Siberia.—See Notes.

[13] See Notes.

[14] The negroes in the West Indies were summoned to their work by a shell or horn.

[15] See Notes.

[16] See the description of the Cape of Good Hope, translated from Camoens by Mickle.

[17] See Notes at the end of the volume.

[18] The oriental Minerva.

[19] The god of Love.

[20] Ganesa answers to Janus.