[7] £1200.
[8] Vide Humboldt’s Researches.
[9] Frezier.
“And lo! deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell,
In hopes to merit heaven by making earth a hell.”
—Childe Harold.
[11] Hist. Novi Orbis, lib. III. c. 21.
[12] It is interesting to English readers to know that the high post of Captain-General of Chili was, in November 1787, confided to Don Ambrose Higgins, a native of Ireland, who was, two years later, appointed Field Marshal of the Royal Armies.
[13] A cruzado = nearly five shillings.
[14] Condamine.
[15] The following was told me by a lady now in her eighty-first year, as having been current in her youth: