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FOOTNOTES:
[1] When Columbus sailed on his fourth voyage, in which he hoped to pass through what we now know as the Isthmus of Panama, and sail northwestward, he wrote to his king and queen that thus he should come as near as men could come to "the Terrestrial Paradise."
[2] Norandel was the half-brother of Amadis, both of them being sons of Lisuarte, King of England.
[3] Maneli was son of Cildadan, King of Ireland.
[4] Quadragante was a distinguished giant, who had been conquered by Amadis, and was now his sure friend.
[5] The "Spectators" 414 and 477, which urge particularly a better taste in gardening, are dated 1712; and the first volume of the "Ichnographia" (under a different name, indeed) appeared in 1715.
[6] This is averred of the translation of the "Œconomics" of Xenophon, before cited in these papers, and published under Professor Bradley's name.
[7] Joseph Andrews, Bk. III. Ch. 4, where Fielding, thief that he was, appropriates the story that Xenophon tells of Cyrus.