Footnotes

[535:2] Altered in later editions to—

No workman's steel, no ponderous axes rung,

Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung.


WASHINGTON IRVING.  1783-1859.

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

The Stout Gentleman.

The almighty dollar,[536:1] that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

The Creole Village.