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    Note 22, page 25, line 13.
    O'er Suli’s frowning rocks she paused awhile.

    For several interesting particulars relative to the Suliote warfare with Ali Pasha, see Holland's Travels in Albania.

    Note 23, page 26, line 5.
    Then on the cliff the frantic mother stood.

    "It is related as an authentic story, that a group of Suliote women assembled on one of the precipices adjoining the modern seraglio, and threw their infants into the chasm below, that they might not become the slaves of the enemy."—Holland's Travels, &c.

    Note 24, page 27, line 14.
    To lend their fall a mournful majesty.

    The ruins of Sparta, near the modern town of Mistra, are very inconsiderable, and only sufficient to mark the site of the ancient city. The scenery around them is described by travellers as very striking.

    Note 25, page 28, line 18.
    How died the brave, obedient to thy laws.

    The inscription composed by Simonides for the Spartan monument in the pass of Thermopylæ has been thus translated—"Stranger, go tell the Lacedemonians that we have obeyed their laws, and that we lie here."

    Note 26, page 30, line 9.
    There the rose laurels still in beauty wave.

    "In the Eurotas I observed abundance of those famous reeds which were known in the earliest ages, and all the rivers and