_The Traveller_ is interesting because it contains beautiful
descriptions and apt expressions of thought. The verse employed is the
heroic couplet, the favorite verse of the eighteenth-century poets.
The lines rhyme in pairs, and often a couplet expresses a complete
thought. Each line contains five feet, or measures.

[1.] Scheld. The Schelde, or Scheldt, empties into the North Sea near
Antwerp.

[2.] Carinthian boor. Carinthia is a province of Austria.

[3.] Campania's plain. Campania includes, among other districts, the
province of Naples.

[4.] My brother. Probably the poet alludes to his elder brother,
Henry, who lived in Ireland. To him he is said to have sent the first
part of his poem, from Switzerland.

[5.] Let school-taught pride, etc. _i.e._ let the philosopher pretend,
if he will, that material things are of small importance.

[6.] Swains, a name used by poets for young men living in the country,
especially lovers.

[7.] The line, the equinoctial line, the equator.

[8.] Idra's cliffs. Idria is a town among the mountains in Camiola,
Austria. Near it are mines of quicksilver.

[9.] Arno's shelvy side. _Shelvy_, or _shelving_, means _sloping