[66] The passage folded down was the 109th Psalm, commonly called "the imprecating psalm." I extract the most affecting passages:—
"May his days be few."
"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
"Let there be none to extend mercy."
"Let their name be blotted out, because he slayed even the broken in heart."
[67] The people of the country consult the spirit of the well for their future destiny, by dropping a pebble into it, striking the ground, and other methods of divination, derived, no doubt, from the Druids.—Polwhele.
[68] Bay of St Michael's Mount.
[69] The blue jay of the Mississippi. See Chateaubriand's Indian song in "Atala."
[70] Called the Flying Dutchman, the phantom ship of the Cape.
[71] Sudden storms are very common in this bay.