Footnote 4: [(return)]
See Letters and Papers relating to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania, by Mr. Thomas Balch.
Footnote 5: [(return)]
Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.
Footnote 6: [(return)]
Here is the sonnet, that the reader may judge for himself:
"The antique Babel, Empresse of the East,
Upreard her buildinges to the threatned skie;
And second Babell, Tyrant of the West,
Her ayry towers upraised much more high.
But, with the weight of their own surquedry,
They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare,
And buried now in their own ashes ly: