[10] Dennie always remained faithful to his New England friends. T. G. Fessenden had been one of the contributors to the Farmer's Museum; when his "Terrible Tractoration" appeared, Dennie wrote to the Port Folio, "To Connecticut men studious either of Hudibrastic or solemn poetry, we look with eager eyes for the most successful specimens of the inspiration of the Muse." Fessenden was the last to maintain the fame of the "Hartford Wits;" and the glory of "McFingal," and "The Conquest of Canaan" and the "Anarchiad," and the "Political Green house" and "The Echo" faded with the failing of the Farmer's Museum.
[11] The editor of the Aurora retorted in kind, and dubbed the Port Folio "Portable Foolery."
[12] "Lengthy" is the American for long. It is frequently used by the classical writers of the New World.—(John Davis' "Travels in the United States," page 126.)
[13] The Powers of Genius, a poem in three parts, by John Blair Linn, A.M. Albion Press. Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for F. Williams, Stationers' Court, and T. Hurst, Paternoster Row, 1804.
[14] There is no mention of Robert Rose in Duyckinck, or Allibone, in Appleton's Encyclopædia of American Biography, or in the admirable Stedman-Hutchinson Library of American Literature.
[15] Abercrombie's prospectus for a new edition of Johnson's Works—"to be comprised in fourteen octavo volumes, with new designs and plates. Phila.: 1811"—is contained in the Port Folio, Vol. VI, p. 98.
[16] The name of the flappers, employed by the inhabitants of Laputa to arouse them from their scientific reveries.
[17] Christ Church.
[18] Dr. Benjamin Say's house at Gray's Ferry.
[19] Sully's painting of Cooke as Richard III in the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts.