[DO] It is recorded by Dion Cassius (see Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiarum Romanarum quae supersunt, lib. xlvii. § 49) that Brutus before his death repeated this saying of Hercules,
O misera virtus, nomen inane. Te quidem
Ceu rem colebam; at serva tu Fortunae eras.
[DP] "At the commencement of the French Revolution, in the remotest villages every tongue was employed in echoing and enforcing the almost geometrical abstractions of the physiocratic politicians and economists. The public roads were crowded with armed enthusiasts disputing on the inalienable sovereignty of the people, the imprescriptible laws of the pure reason, and the universal constitution, which, as rising out of the nature and rights of man as man, all nations alike were under the obligation of adopting."-S.T. Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon (1816), p. 19.—ED.
[DQ] The Hudson river, some of the sources of which rise in the Adirondack wilderness.—ED.
[DR] New York.—ED.
[DS] See Wordsworth's note, p. [386].—ED.
[DT] The St. Lawrence.—ED.
[DU] "The Mocking Bird (Turdus polyglottus, Linn.), the American nightingale. He has a voice full, strong, and musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the Wood Thrush, to the savage scream of the Bald Eagle. In measure and accent he faithfully follows his originals. In force and sweetness of expression he greatly improves upon them. In his native groves, his song rises pre-eminent over every competitor. Neither is his strain altogether imitative. His notes are bold and full, and varied seemingly beyond all limits. They consist of short expressions of two, three, or, at the most, five or six syllables; generally interspersed with imitations, and all of them uttered with great emphasis and rapidity, and continued with undiminished ardour for half an hour, or an hour at a time."—American Ornithology, by Wilson, Bonaparte, and Jardine, vol. i. p. 164, etc.—ED.
[DV] I was indebted to Mr. Edward B. Tylor, and also to the Rev. Charles M. Addison, of Arlington, Mass., for identifying the "melancholy Muccawiss" as the Whip-poor-will (Caprimulgus vociferus, or Antrostomus vociferus). "Their melancholy night song has led some Indians to consider them the souls of ancestors killed in battle."—Mr. Tylor. For letters in reference to the Muccawiss, see Note C in the Appendix to this volume, p. 393; and compare Charles Waterton's Wanderings in South America, etc. etc. (1828), and Wordsworth's poem, A Morning Exercise, written in 1828.