There late was laid a marble stone;
Eve saw it placed-the morrow gone!
It was no mortal arm that bore
That deep-fix'd pillar to the shore;
For there, as Helle's legends tell,

Next morn 't was found where Selim fell;
Lash'd by the tumbling tide, whose wave
Denied his bones a holier grave:
And there by night, reclined, 't is said,
Is seen a ghastly turban'd head:
And hence extended by the billow,

"T is named the « Pirate-phantom's pillow!»
Where first it lay that mourning flower
Hath flourish'd; flourisheth this hour,
Alone and dewy, coldly pure and pale;
As weeping Beauty's cheek at Sorrow's tale!

The wrangling about this epithet, «the broad Hellespont or the boundless Hellespont,» whether it means one or the other, or what it means at all, has been beyond all possibility of detail. I have even heard it disputed on the spot; and foreseeing no speedy conclusion to the controversy, amused myself with swimming across it in the mean time, and probably may again, before the point is settled. Indeed, the question as to the truth of « the tale of Troy divine» still continues, much of it resting upon the talismanic word «años:» probably Homer had the same notion of distance that a coquette has of time, and when he talks of boundless, means half-a-mile; as the latter, by a like figure, when she says eternal attachment, simply specifies three weeks.

Note 2, page 163, line 7.

Which Ammon's son ran proudly round, etc.

Before his Persian invasion, and crowned the altar with laurel, etc. He was afterwards imitated by Caracalla in his race. It is believed that the last also poisoned a friend, named Festus, for the sake of new Patroclan games. I have seen the sheep feeding on the tombs of Esietes and Antilochus; the first is in the centre of the plain.

Note 3, page 163, line 27.

O'er which her fairy fingers ran; etc.

When rubbed, the amber is susceptible of a perfume, which is slight but not disagreeable.

There late was laid a marble stone;
Eve saw it placed-the morrow gone!
It was no mortal arm that bore
That deep-fix'd pillar to the shore;
For there, as Helle's legends tell,

Next morn 't was found where Selim fell;
Lash'd by the tumbling tide, whose wave
Denied his bones a holier grave:

And there by night, reclined, 't is said,
Is seen a ghastly turban'd head:
And hence extended by the billow,
"T is named the « Pirate-phantom's pillow!»
Where first it lay that mourning flower
Hath flourish'd; flourisheth this hour,
Alone and dewy, coldly pure and pale;
As weeping Beauty's cheek at Sorrow's tale!

NOTES TO CANTO II.

Note 1, page 162, line 23.

Thine own broad Hellespont» still dashes, etc.

The wrangling about this epithet, «the broad Hellespont» or the boundless Hellespont,» whether it means one or the other, or what it means at all, has been beyond all possibility of detail. I have even heard it disputed on the spot; and foreseeing no speedy conclusion to the controversy, amused myself with swimming across it in the mean time, and probably may again, before the point is settled. Indeed, the question as to the truth of the tale of Troy divine» still continues, much of it resting upon the talismanic word κι άπειρος : probably Homer had the same notion of distance that a coquette has of time, and when he talks of boundless, means half-a-mile; as the latter, by a like figure, when she says eternal attachment, simply specifies three weeks.

Note 2, page 163, line 7.

Which Ammon's son ran proudly round, etc.

Before his Persian invasion, and crowned the altar with laurel, etc. He was afterwards imitated by Caracalla in his race. It is believed that the last also poisoned a friend, named Festus, for the sake of new Patroclan games. I have seen the sheep feeding on the tombs of Esietes and Antilochus; the first is in the centre of the plain.

Note 3, page 163, line 27.

O'er which her fairy fingers ran; etc.

When rubbed, the amber is susceptible of a perfume, which is slight but not disagreeable.

Note 4, page 163, line 30.

Her mother's sainted amulet, etc.

The belief in amulets engraved on gems, or enclosed in gold boxes, containing scraps from the Koran, worn round the neck, wrist, or arm, is still universal in the east. The koorsee (throne) verse in the second cap. of the Koran describes the attributes of the Most High, and is engraved in this manner, and worn by the pious, as the most esteemed and sublime of all sentences.

Note 5, page 164, line 3.

And by her comboloko lies, etc.

«Comboloio»-a Turkish rosary. The MSS. particularly those of the Persians, are richly adorned and illuminated. The Greek females are kept in utter ignorance; but many of the Turkish girls are highly accomplished, though not actually qualified for a christian coterie. Perhaps some of our own blues might not be the worse for bleaching.

Note 6, page 166, line 25.

In him was some young galiongée.

« Galiongée»– —or galiongi, a sailor that is, a Turkish sailor; the Greeks navigate, the Turks work the guns. Their dress is picturesque; and I have seen the Capitan Pacha more than once wearing it as a kind of incog. Their legs, however, are generally naked. The buskins, described in the text as sheathed behind with silver, are those of an Arnaut robber, who was my host (he had quitted the profession) at his Pyrgo, near Gastouni in the Morea; they were plated in scales one over the other, like the back of an armadillo.

The characters on all Turkish scimitars contain sometimes the name of the place of their manufacture, but more generally a text from the Koran, in letters of gold. Amongst those in my possession is one with a blade of singular construction; it is very broad, and the edge notched into serpentine curves like the ripple of water, or the wavering of flame. I asked the Armenian who sold it, what possible