390 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



"Joyful amid his cups on festive days, his gray head crowned with 

 laurels, the soldier will boast hereafter of his exploits under this King, 

 and noble triumphs won ; and, remembering the former George, who 

 himself also waged wars far from fatherland, will tell of glorious deeds 

 done by himself and his chief; will tell of the gulfs and huge lakes of 

 America, of mountain summits clothed with forests, of sternly-rushing 

 rivers, of finely seated cities, of the forms and murderous looks of 

 savages, of their dire implements of war, their horrific customs : whilst 

 his great-grandson, listening to these marvels, will stand amazed, and, 

 it may be, deem fabulous that which is true." 



We have in the Gentleman's Mag<xzme for March 1759, a glimpse, 

 somewhat too realistic, of a group, of "whom it is to be hoped soma 

 survived to fulfil the poet's prediction : 



" On Tuesday, the 13th instant," we are told, " about eighty Highlanders, 

 ■wounded at the battle of Ticonderago, in America, set out from Portsmouth in 

 waggons, in order to be sent, some to hospitals for cure, others to Chelsea Hos- 

 pital, and the rest to return to their own country. Some of them, it is added, 

 were so lacerated by the slugs and broken nails which the enemy fired, that they 

 were deemed incurable." 



The Regius Professor of Medicine, Dr. John Kelly, also a member 

 of Christ Church, gives proof that the cares of his profession had not 

 caused him to forget how to construct hexameters. We extract the 

 passage where he names America. He is eulogising the late King : 



Yirtutis prjEcepta secutus 



Impiger ille aderat qua divre causa vocabat 

 Libertatis ; eam firmS, defendere dextra 

 Unica erat cura : Americffi quin barbara Pubes 

 Jura Britannorum stevis agnovit in oris, 

 Duraque consuerant mitescere corda, Georgi 

 Pr£Bsidio &,c. 



" Obeying the dictates of valour, wherever the cause of god-like 

 Liberty summoned, he was instantly present : her to defend with strong 

 right hand was his one care. Moreover, under the guardianship of our 

 George, the barbarian youth, of America, in all their savage coasts, 

 became acquainted with the laws of Britons, and their stern hearts 

 grew familiar with gentleness." 



Here is a brief extract from the production of another Christ Church 

 man, John Crewe, senior, a fellow-commoner. He names Canada : 



En ! nomen Britonum quaqua patet Orbis, ab Ortu 

 Solis ad Occasum, veneratur decolor Indus 



