[807] Omai.
[808] Alluding to the calamities in Jamaica.
[809] August 18, 1783.
[810] Alluding to the fog that covered both Europe and Asia during the whole summer of 1783.
[811] Benet College, Cambridge.
[812] Miraturque novos fructus et non sua poma.—Virg.
[813] Mignonette.
[814] The author hopes that he shall not be censured for unnecessary warmth upon so interesting a subject. He is aware that it is become almost fashionable to stigmatize such sentiments as no better than empty declamation; but it is an ill symptom, and peculiar to modern times.
[815] See Hume.
[816] The Guelder Rose.