[4] See Narrative of Byron’s Shipwreck.—Notes at end of Volume.
[5] A Briton and a friend.—Don Patricio Gedd, a Scotch physician in one of the Spanish settlements, hospitably relieved Byron and his wretched associates, of which the commodore speaks in the warmest terms of gratitude.
[6] The seven strings of Apollo’s harp were the symbolical representation of the seven planets. Herschell, by discovering an eighth, might be said to add another string to the instrument.
[7] Linnæus, the famous Swedish Botanist.
[8] Socrates.
[9] Deep from his vaults, the Loxian murmurs flow.—Loxias is the name frequently given to Apollo by Greek writers; it is met with more than once in the Chœphoræ of Æschylus.
[10] Exodus xvii. 3, 5, 6.
[11] The superstition of the African savages.—[See Notes.]
[12] Siberia.—[See Notes.]