The morse emerging rears the face of man.

The Morse, or Walrus, supposed to be the original of the Merman; from the likeness its face presents at a little distance to that of a human being.

[5.—Page 347, stanza viii.]

Floats the vast ice-field with its glassy blink.

The ice-blink seen on the horizon.

[6.—Page 348, stanza xiii.]

While the dire pest-scourge of the frozen zone.

Though the fearful disease known by the name of the scurvy is not peculiar to the northern latitudes; and Dr. Budd has ably disproved (in the Library of Practical Medicine) the old theory that it originated in cold and moisture; yet the disease was known in the north of Europe from the remotest ages, while no mention is made of its appearance in more genial climates before the year 1260.

[7.—Page 349, stanza xxii.]

And round and round the bark the narwal sweeps.