[8.] The colors of the Colombian flag are yellow, blue and red.
[9.] The colors of the Spanish flag are red and yellow. On the Spanish arms two castles (for Castilla) and two lions (for León) are pictured.
[164.]—J.E. Caro: see note to p. 162.
[167.]—Marroquin: see note to p. 162.
[Los cazadores y la perrilla:] compare with Goldsmith's "Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog."
[168.—7.] Moratín: see note to p. 26. La caza is in Bibl. de Aut. Esp., II, 49 f.
[169.—16.] describilla, archaic or poetic for describirla.
[171.]—M.A. Caro: see note to p. 162.
[174.—14-16.] sombría... alcanzarán = (siendo la Eternidad) sombría y eterna, ni el odio ni el amor, ni la fe ni la duda, alcanzarán nada en sus abismos.
[179.]—Cuba. Although the literary output of Cuba is greater than that of some other Spanish-American countries, yet during the colonial period there was in Cuba a dearth of both prose and verse. The Colegio Semanario de San Carlos y San Ambrosio was founded in 1689 as a theological seminary and was reorganized with lay instruction in 1769. The University of Havana was established by a papal bull in 1721 and received royal sanction in 1728; but for many years it gave instruction only in theological subjects. The first book printed in Cuba dates from 1720. Not till the second half of the eighteenth century did poets of merit appear in the island. Manuel de Zequeira y Arango (1760-1846) wrote chiefly heroic odes (Poesías, N.Y., 1829; Havana, 1852). Inferior to Zequeira was Manuel Justo de Rubalcava (1769-1805), the author of bucolic poems and sonnets (Poesías, Santiago de Cuba, 1848).