BARTRAM'S INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE 183 



Campbell evidently drew mainly on colorful travel books for his 

 information about America. He sees flamingoes disporting 

 themselves on the lakes; he hears the merry mock-bird's song; 

 and for " pastime " he suggests doing battle with the crocodile. 

 An insight into his sources is gained from his notes. For the 

 mocking-bird he quotes a description from Ashe; for the In- 

 dians' " swarthy lineaments " he quotes from the Travels 

 through America by Captains Lewis and Clarke, 1804-3-6; for 

 his "' tree-rocked cradle " of the Indian child he quotes Weld; ^^ 

 for the fortitude of the Indian character he quotes Adair; ^^ for 

 the Indians' superstitions regarding dreams he quotes Charle- 

 voix; ^® for his use of a part of Logan's famous speech he quotes, 

 of course, Thomas Jefferson ; ^° and for the crocodile he quotes 

 Bartram. 



Bartram's authority is invoked to explain the lines 



The crocodile, the condor of the rock, 

 Shall be the pastime of thy sylvan wars; 



(Part I, stanzas xxvi) 



Four paragraphs are quoted from the Travels, beginning with 

 '" The alligator ^^ when full grown is a very large and terrible 

 creature " and ending with " He acts his part like an Indian 

 chief, when rehearsing his feats of war." It is safe to say that 

 if Campbell, when he came to write of America, remembered 

 Bartram's alligators, he probably remembered many other things 

 which he failed to annotate. Campbell's Pennsylvania looks 

 more like Bartram's southern region than its own reality. It is 



" Isaac Weld, Travels in North America. London, 1800. 3d ed. 



^* James Adair, General Observations on the American Indians. London, 1775. 



^* Pierre Frangois de Charlevoix, Journal of a Voyage to North America. 



'" Notes on Virginia. 



*^ Here Campbell adds: " or American crocodile." The quotation differs in 

 some respects from any of the known English texts. Campbell has evidently 

 changed the punctuation and slightly compressed the passage. From the fact, 

 however, that he lists the book as Bertram's Travels {Poetical Works. London, 

 1837, p. 297) and calls the author *' Bertram," it is more than probable that he 

 used the Dublin edition, 1793, pp. 126-129. The binding of the copy of that 

 edition in The Johns Hopkins University library, presumably the original Dublin 

 binding, labels the book as "' Bertram's Travels." 



