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NOTE 15. Page 99.

On yon boar fummit, mildly bright—

"The Perfians," fays Herodotus," reject the ufe of temples, altars, and ftatues. The tops of the highest mountains are the places chofen for facrifices." The elements, and more particularly Fire, were the objects of their religious reverence.

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NOTE 18. Page 102.

The red-crofs fquadrons madly rage.

This remarkable event happened at the fiege and fack of Jerufalem, in the last year of the eleventh century, when the triumphant croifes, after every enemy was fubdued and flaughtered, immediately turned themselves, with the fentiments of humiliation and contrition, towards the holy fepulchre. They threw afide their arms, ftill ftreaming with blood: they advanced with reclined bodies, and naked feet and head, to that facred monument : they fung anthems to their Saviour who had purchased their salvation by his death and agony and their devotion, enlivened by the presence of the place where he had fuffered, fo overcame their fury,

that they diffolved in tears, and bore the appearance

of every soft and tender fentiment.

HUME I. 221.

THE SAILOR.

AN ELEGY.

THE.Sailor fighs as finks his native shore,

As all its leffening turrets bluely fade;

He climbs the mast to feast his eye once more,

And bufy Fancy fondly lends her aid.

Ah! now, each dear, domestic scene he knew, Recall'd and cherish'd in a foreign clime, Charms with the magic of a moonlight-view, Its colours mellow'd, not impair'd, by time.

True as the needle, homeward points his heart,

Thro' all the horrors of the ftormy main;

This, the last wish with which its warmth could part,

To meet the fmile of her he loves again.

When Morn firft faintly draws her filver line,

Or Eve's cloud defcends to drink the wave;

gray

When fea and sky in midnight darkness join,

Still, ftill he views the parting look she gave.

Her gentle spirit, lightly hovering o'er,
Attends his little bark from pole to pole;

And, when the beating billows round him roar,
Whispers fweet hope to footh his troubled foul.

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