398 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



writers on America. La Hontan, ia his Memoires de rAmdrique 

 Septenti-ionale, unaccountably says of that sheet of water : " C'est 

 assurement le plus beau qui soit sur la terre." (ii. 20.) Charlevoix, 

 as he journeys along its northern coast, writes more calmly; but even 

 he employs such language as the following: "In everyplace where 

 I landed, I was enchanted with the beauty and the variety of the 

 landscape, bounded by the finest forest in the world." (ii. 2.) It is 

 interesting to know that it was Charlevoix's account of this region that 

 induced the distinguished pioneer of Canadian civilization, Col. Talbot, 

 to form his settlement there. See "Life of Colonel Talbot," by Mr. 

 Ermatinger, of St. Thomas, page 13 ; also Mrs. Jameson's " Winter 

 Studies and Summer Rambles," ii. 11. 



We Gome next to an extract, in vigorous blank verse, like the last, 

 from a piece contributed by " Thomas Leigh, M.A., Magd. Coll." 

 He makes Britannia herself bemoan the sudden death of the King. 



She says : 



" "What now avails 



That in the embattled field upon my spear 



Perch'd Victory, whilst o'er the subject main 



My conquering fleets have spread their canvas wings 



From Ganges to the river on whose banks 



The scalping Indian, nursed in Murder's arms, 



Quaff'd the ensanguined stream, which erst (ere "Wolfe's 



And Amherst's heaven-assisted swords forbade) 



With British blood flowed purple to the vast 



Laurentine Gulf." 



The Amherst here coupled with Wolfe is Major-Greneral Jeffrey 

 Amherst, to whom Montreal was surrendered, September 8th, 1760. 

 He was afterwards Lord Amherst. We have in the December number 

 of the London Magazine, 1760, a " Martial Song" on the Taking of 

 Montreal, with music : the whole " presented to His Royal Highness 

 the Prince of Wales." Amherst is its hero. In a list of new publica- 

 tions, given in the March number of the same volume of the London 

 Magazine, an ode, entitled " Canadia," is mentioned; price Is.; pub- 

 lished by Dodsley : also " Quebeek," a Poetical Essay; price Is. 6d. 



In the blank verse of J. Fortescue, B.D., Fellow of Exeter College, 

 we have some very strong expressions of regard for the late King. 

 Posterity, it was predicted, would kiss the greensward once trod by him, 

 at Kensington. The metaphor of the setting and rising sun is once 

 more employed. Pitt is adroitly introduced; Canada is named, and 



