FOOTNOTES:
[1] Historie des Oracles.
[2] Maria del Occidente—otherwise, we believe, Mrs. Brooks—is styled in "The Doctor," &c. "the most impassioned and most imaginative of all poetesses." And without taking into account quædam ardentiora scattered here and there throughout her singular poem, there is undoubtedly ground for the first clause, and, with the more accurate substitution of "fanciful" for "imaginative" for the whole of the eulogy. It is altogether an extraordinary performance.—London Quarterly Review.
[3] The author of "Notes on Cuba." Boston, 1844.
[4] A frequent case among the maids of South America.
[5] This terrible slaughter took place on the night of the 16th June, 1816, under the advice, and with the participation of the women of Mompox, a beautiful city on an island in the River Magdalena. The event has enlisted the muse of many a native patriot and poet, who grew wild when they recalled the courage of
"Those dames of Magdalena,
Who, in one fearful night,
Slew full four hundred tyrants,
Nor shrunk from blood in fright."
Such women deserve the apostrophe of Macbeth to his wife:
"Bring forth men children only."
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Certain unusual instances of spelling and grammar have been retained. Errors in punctuation and obvious typos have been corrected without remark.