Aut onera accipiunt venientum, aut agmine facto

Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent;

Fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella.

Æneid. Lib. I.

[154] Sweden was the only continental ally of Britain during this war.

[155] Marline, a piece of untwisted rope, dipped in pitch, and wrapped round a cable to guard it.

[156] Tarpawling, pitched canvas.

[157] [Note XXXI.]

[158] Extra anni solisque vias.—Virgil.

[159] By a more exact measure of longitude. Dryden.