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f 91 ) p. 58. Compare the waterspout in Canto v. est. 19 22, with the also 

 highly poetic aud faithful description of Lucretius, vi. 423 442. On the 

 fresh water, which, towards the close of the phenomenon, falls apparently from 

 the upper part of the column of water, see Ogden on Waterspouts (from Ob- 

 servations made in 1820, during a voyage from Havanuah to Norfolk), in 

 Silliman's American Journal of Science, Vol. xxix. 1836, p. 254 260. 



( 9 -) p. 58. Canto iii. est. 7 21, of the text of Camoeus in the editio 

 princeps of 1572, which has heen given afresh in the excellent and splendid 

 edition of Dom Joze Maria de Souza-Botelho (Paris, 1818). In the German 

 quotations I have usually followed the translation of Donner (1833). The 

 principal aim of the Lusiad of Camoens is the honour and glory of his nation. 

 Would it not be a monument, well worthy of his fame, if a hall were constructed 

 in Lisbon, after the noble examples of the halls of Schiller and Gothe in the 

 Grand Ducal palace of Weimar, and if the twelve grand compositions of my 

 deceased friend Gerard, which adorn the Souza edition, were executed in 

 large dimensions, in fresco, on well lit walls ? The dream of the king Dom 

 Manoel, in which the rivers Indus and Ganges appear to him, the Giant 

 Adamastor hovering over the Cape of Good Hope (" Eu sou aquelle occulto e 

 grande Cabo, Aquem chamais vos outros Tormentorio"), the murder of Ines 

 de Castro, and the lovely Ilha de Venus, would all have the finest effect. 



0*) p. 58. Canto x. est. 7990. Camoens, like Vespucci, terms the 

 part of the heavens nearest to the southern pole, poor in stars (Canto v. est. 14). 

 He is also acquainted with the ice of the southern seas (Canto v. est. 27). 



(94) p 59._c a nto x. est. 91141. 



t 95 ) p. 59. Canto ix. est. 5163. (Consult Ludwig Kriegk, Schriften 

 zur allgemeinen Erdkunde, 1840, S. 338.) The whole Ilha de Venus is an 

 allegorical fable, as is clearly indicated in Est. 89 ; but the beginning of the 

 relation of Dom Manoel's dream depicts an Indian mountain and forest dis- 

 trict (Canto iv. est. 70). 



(^ p. 60. Fondness for the old literature of Spain, and for the enchanting 

 region in which the Araucana of Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga was composed, 

 has led me to read conscientiously through the whole of this poem of 22000 

 lines on two occasions, once in Peru, and again very recently in Paris, when, 

 by the kindness of a learned traveller, M. Ternaux Compans, I received a very 

 scarce book, printed in 1596, at Lima, and containing the nineteen cantos of 

 the Arauco domado compuesto por el Licenciado Pedro de Ofia natural- de los 

 Infantes de Engol en Chile. Of the epic poem of Ercilla, in which Voltaire 

 sees an Iliad, and Sismondi a newspaper in ihyme, the first fifteen cantos were 

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