its consequences, in Bengal, will afford a suffici. ent idea of the fact alluded to in this passage.

After describing the monopoly of salt, betel. nut, and tobacco, the historian proceeds thus:"Money, in this current, came but by drops; it could not quench the thirst of those who waited in India to receive it. An expedient, such as it was, remained to quicken its pace. The natives could live with little salt, but could not want food. Some of the agents saw themselves well situated for collecting the rice into stores; they did so. They knew the Gentoos would rather die than violate the principles of their religion by eating flesh. The alternative would therefore be between giving what they had, or dying. The inhabitants sunk;-they that cultivated the land, and saw the harvest at the disposal of others, planted in doubt-scarcity ensued. Then the monopoly was easier managed-sickness en. sued. In some districts the languid living left the bodies of their numerous dead unburied."Short History of the English Transactions in the East Indies, page 145.

Note 14, page 38.

Nine times have Brama's wheels of lightning hurl'd

His awful presence o'er the alarmed world.

Among the sublime fictions of the Hindoo my. thology, it is one article of belief, that the Deity Brama has descended nine times upon the world in various forms, and that he is yet to appear a tenth time, in the figure of a warrior upon a white horse, to cut off all incorrigible offenders. Avatar is the word used to express his descent.

Note 15, page 39.

Shall Seriswattee wave her hallow'd wand! And Camdeo bright, and Ganesa sublimeCamdeo is the God of Love, in the mythology of the Hindoos. Ganesa and Seriswattee correspond to the pagan deities, Janus and Minerva. Note 16, page 42.

The noon of manhood to a myrtle shade! Sacred to Venus is the myrtle shade.-Dryden.

Note 17, page 45.

Thy woes, Arion.

Falconer, in his poem The Shipwreck, speaks of himself by the name of Ariou. See FALCONER'S Shipwreck, Canto III.

Note 18, page 45.

The robber Moor!

See SCHILLER's tragedy of The Robbers, scene v. Note 19, page 46.

What millions died-that Cæsar might be great! The carnage occasioned by the wars of Julius Cæsar, has been usually estimated at two millions of men.

Note 20, page 46.

Or learn the fate that bleeding thousands bore, March'd by their Charles to Dneiper's swampy

shore.

"In this extremity" (says the biographer of Charles XII. of Sweden, speaking of his military exploits before the battle of Pultowa,) "the me

morable winter of 1709, which was still more remarkable in that part of Europe than in France, destroyed numbers of his troops; for Charles resolved to brave the seasons as he had done his enemies, and ventured to make long marches during this mortal cold. It was in one of these marches that two thousand men fell down dead with cold before his eyes."

Note 21, page 47.

-as Iona's saint.

The natives of the island of Iona have an opinion that on certain evenings every year the tutelary saint Columba is seen on the top of the church spires counting the surrounding islands, to see that they have not been sunk by the power of witchcraft.

Note 22, page 47.

And part, like Ajut,-never to return! See the history of AJUT AND ANNINGAIT, in The Rambler.

GERTRUDE OF WYOMING.

IN THREE PARTS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Most of the popular histories of England, as well as of the American war, give an authentic account of the desolation of Wyoming, in Penn. sylvania, which took place in 1778, by an incursion of the Indians. The Scenery and Incidents of the following Poem are connected with that event. The testimonies of historians and travellers concur in describing the infant colony as one of the happiest spots of human existence, for the hospitable and innocent manners of the inhabitants. the beauty of the country, and the luxuriant fertility of the soil and climate. In an evil hour, the junction of European with In. dian arms, converted this terrestrial paradise into a frightful waste. Mr. ISAAC WELD informs us, that the ruins of many of the villages, per. forated with balls, and bearing marks of confla. gration, were still preserved by the recent inhabitants, when he travelled through America, in 1796.

PART I.

I.

On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming!
Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall
And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring
Of what thy gentle people did befall;

Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all
That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore.
Sweet land! may I thy lost delights recall,
And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore
Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's
shore!

II.

Delightful Wyoming! beneath thy skies,
The happy shepherd swains had nought to do
But feed their flocks on green declivities,
Or skim perchance thy lake with light canoe,
From morn till evening's sweeter pastime grew,
With timbrel, when beneath the forests brown,
Thy lovely maidens would the dance renew,
And aye those sunny mountains half-way down
Would echo flagelet from some romantic town.

III.

Then, where of India hills the daylight takes
His leave, how might you the flamingo see
Disporting like a meteor on the lakes-
And playful squirrel on his nut-grown tree:
And every sound of life was full of glee,