"Peace be yours no force can break,
Peace not Death hath power to shake;"
* * * * *
"Peace from peril, fear, and pain;
Peace—until we meet again!
Not before the sculptured stone,
But the All-Commander's Throne."
[1] Qy. απο, from, εργος, work—as en-ergy?]
[2] The chemical notation of the MS. is unfortunately different from any known to any chemist of my acquaintance, and utterly undecipherable.]
[3] Last figures illegible: the year is probably 183.]
[4] These distances are given in Roman measures and round numbers not easy of exact rendering.]
[5] In 1830 or thereabouts.—ED.]
[6] The Martial year is 687 of our days, and eight Martial years are nearly equivalent to fifteen Terrestrial. Roughly, and in round numbers, the time figures given may be multiplied by two to reduce them to Terrestrial periods.—ED.]
[7] Say fifty-sixth; in effect, fiftieth.—Narrator.]