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 P. 9. The two last lines contain as elegant an encomium as is to be found in any funeral elegy or epitaph in the English language:

P. 10. Rhodanus is the Rhone, which rises in the same chain of mountains as the Rhine in Switzerland; visits Lyons and Avignon, and falls by several mouths into the Mediterranean.

L. 6. With moones of Ottoman and Sophis sun.

The crescent has always been the ensign or standard of the Turkish armies, and the sun was the chief object of adoration among the Persians, whose emperor is called Sophi.

P. 11. l. 2. The carcasses of Troy and Babylon.

So Sulpitius, in his Letter to Cicero: "Cum uno loco tot oppidorum cadavera projecta jaceant."

This word is introduced with striking effect by "Janus Vitalis," in his fine epigram on the Ruins of Ancient Rome:

P. 11. l. 21. ''O three times happy that contented man! &c.''

Claudian has a similar exclamation in his interesting poem "De Sene Veronensi,"