[3] "Thirty-five miles below the surface of the earth, the central heat is everywhere so great, that granite itself is held in fusion."—Humboldt, Cosmos, i. 273.
[4] Lucan, i. 1-6.
[5] Macaulay's History of England, vol. ii. p. 669.
[6] Louis Blanc, Histoire de Dix Ans de Louis Philippe, iii. 321, et seq.
[7] Macaulay's History, i. 1-2.
[8] Observe, for a time! We shall see anon what the price of sugar will be when the English colonies are destroyed and the slave plantations have the monopoly of the market in their hands.
[9] "Cromwell supplied the void made by his conquering sword, by pouring in numerous colonies of the Anglo-Saxon blood and of the Calvinistic faith. Strange to say, under that iron rule the conquered country began to wear an outward face of prosperity. Districts, which had recently been as wild as those where the first white settlers of Connecticut were contending with the Red Men, were in a few years transformed into the likeness of Kent and Norfolk. New buildings, roads, and plantations were everywhere begun. The rent of estates rose fast: and some of the English landowners began to complain that they were met in every market by the products of Ireland, and to clamour for protecting laws."—Macaulay's History, i., 130.
[10] A Campaign in the Kabylie. By Dawson Borrer, F.R.G.S., &c. London, 1848.
La Kabylie. Par un Colon. Paris, 1846.
La Captivité du Trompette Escoffier. Par Ernest Alby. 2 vols. Brussels, 1848.