_So, when he breath'd his firm yet fond adieu_,

See COOK'S first voyage, book i. chap. 16.

Another very affecting instance of local attachment is related of his
fellow-countryman Potaveri, who came to Europe with M. de
Bougainville.--See LES JARDINS, chant, ii.

NOTE e.

_So Scotia's Queen, &c_.

Elle se leve sur son lict, et se met a contempler la France encore,
et tant qu'elle peut. BRANTÔME, i. 140.

NOTE f.

_Thus kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire_.

To an accidental association may be ascribed some of the noblest
efforts of human genius. The Historian of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire first conceived his design among the ruins of the
Capitol; and to the tones of a Welsh harp are we indebted for the
Bard of Gray.--GIBBON'S Hist. xii. 432.--Mem. of Gray, sect. iv.
let. 25.

NOTE g.

_Hence home-felt pleasure, &c_.