CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 391 



•Qui Gangen potat, Canadeeve in montibus errans 

 Incultus, certo sibi victum qnseritat area. 



" Lo ! wherever the wide world spreads, from rise to set of sun, the 

 swart Indian reveres the British name : the Indian who quaffs the 

 Ganges, and he who, wandering rude on Canadian hills, is ever on the 

 search, with unerring bow, for food." 



Once more : a member of Christ Church, a fellow-commoner, bearing 

 a name of archaic tone, Chaloner Arcedeckne, appears as an encomiast 

 of the late King, whose shade he addresses. While recounting the 

 perils from climate experienced in the war on this continent, he names 

 the St. Lawrence, thus : 



Tu, crescentem, Eex magne, Britannis 



Latius extendens per inhospita litora famam, 

 Tentabas nova bella ; licet de montibus alti3 

 Concretas nive devolvat Laurentius undas, 

 Pennatusque gerat miles furtiva sub aspris 

 Bella latens dumis, et sylva tectus opaca. 



" Thou, great King, while extending for the British people, wider 

 than ever, over inhospitable regions, their growing fame, didst engage 

 in novel warrings, despite the St. Lawrence rolling down from vast 

 heights his glacial masses, and the feather-cinctured brave, waging a 

 stealthy warfare, lurking in rough thickets, protected by dense forests." 



My last extract in Latin will be from some choriambic stanzas, after 

 the mannner of Horace in the ode Scriberis Vario, and elsewhere- 

 The author is no less a personage than the Duke of Beaufort of the day. 

 He was of Oriel. The signature runs thus : " lUustrissimus Princeps 

 Henricus, dux de Beaufort, e coll. Oriel." We again have Canada 

 expressly mentioned. Under the name of Agrippa, the right-hand 

 man of Augustus, the elder Pitt is personified. The young King is 

 adroitly converted into Octavius ; and George II. is then, with some 

 appropriateness, spoken of as the deified Julius. The whole composi- 

 tion shows great tact and skill. The poem is addressed to the new 

 King. We select the passage where Canada is met with, in very classic 



company : 



Nee te poBniteat quod mediis noYUS 

 Eerum undis subeas : En lateri assidet 

 Agrippa eloquiis et consiliis potens, 



Octavi Juvenis, Tuo ! 

 Ssevi Ulo moderante impavida manu 

 Belli frffina, niger solibus Africus, 



