[103] De l’Esprit des Lois, Liv. III. chs. 3, 6.

[104] Paradise Lost, Book I. 742-5.

[105] Sallust, Catilina, Cap. 12.

[106] 2 Henry IV., Act IV. Scene 2.

[107] Not a transcript of the famous epitaph on the tomb at Seville,—

“A Castilla y á Leon

Nuevo mundo dió Colon,”—

(“To Castile and Leon Columbus gave a new world,”)—

but part of a Latin inscription, to the same effect, on a mural tablet in the Cathedral at Havana, the last resting-place of the remains of the great navigator:—

“Claris. heros Ligustin. Christophorus Colombus a se rei nautic. scient. insign. nov. orb. detect. atque Castell. et Legion. regib. subject.,” etc.—