I have seen the print of a snake-statue as an idol in Yucatan. It may be managed to have this the idol, and make Dithial tame a huge serpent and pass him for the descended deity. Madoc should kill him.

The rescued victim is Melamin. To her tribe Cadwallon goes to seek an alliance. In his absence the capture of Madoc happens.

There is a gap between books 7 and 8, which may be widened. Book 7 will swell into two.

Cadwallon shows Madoc an infant of but a few days, the first born of the colony, the child of himself and Melamin. After the rescue of Herma, all being peaceable, Cadwallon accompanied him to his own tribe-no-this is rambling. After the removal to the mountains, they go to form an alliance. The mode of entering a village. The calumet. Quits North American savages. Melamin first seen by her husband's war-pole. Then the festival of the dead. On their return Melamin accompanies her brother. Reverence. Gratitude ripens into love. Cynetha must be kept alive a little longer, that her attentions to him may half win Cadwallon's heart. The lamp-courtship of Canada. Books 7 and 8, in the room of 7, as now.

He

Book 9 follows thus, Dithial demands Cadwallon's child for the snake idol. has had a dream. He comes again the next day, or rather Rajenet comes, and demands it in Erilyab's name. For the snake idol has put on life, and at night seized one child, which, under protection of the Cambrians, had been refused. The mother tells the tale. A cavern is the temple; at the mouth is the great serpent sunning himself, and in the act of fascinating. Madoc kills him.

Rajenet's demand of Gwenlhian.

Book 10. A religious ceremony of naming the child: it should be done on Cynetha's

here we fall into the great road.

Book 11 will then be the present 8th, and on 12, 13.

14 (the 11th). When Madoc reaches the settlement, he finds Dithial a prisoner, Rajenet dead. They had seized the opportunity of making their own terms. Meaning to secure the women as hostages. The dog killed Rajenet, and with Herma successfully defended them. The inweaving this throws the battle and capture of Aztlan to book 15. The twelfth remains for book 16.

Book 17. The town purified. Dithial's confession. The resignation of Erilyab. Herma's marriage. Eleno? I think so.

18. During that ceremony the war-embassadors. Caradoc retires in envious recollection to the lake banks. Senena follows, and avows herself. Some moonlight scene. Some song that he had taught her. 19. The great lake-battle, now in 13. 14 makes 20.

21. The close. Ilanquel and her child may have escaped, and be by Tlalala led to Madoc.

June 6, 1801, Lisbon.

Certainly to Bardsey, and there the interview with Llewelyn should be; he has watched his uncle, and follows in a coracle.

Were not some Adamites in England then, who died for want of food-as Jane Shore is fabled to have perished. One of these Madoc might relieve in death, and thus be tuned to answer a volunteer priest angrily.

The Welsh Indians have a Bible. Madoc will only preach what the feelings of man instinctively assent to; the rest he leaves for times of reason. Surely this is wisdom.

Tlalala's first feeling religious on his escape from the lake. Note Aguilar's release from the Indians.

Ceremony of the peace at Aztlan, and incensing Madoc.

October 4, 1801.1 Sentence of annihilation pronounced upon Caradoc and Senena. The song, book 4, and the harp incident, are transferable to Madoc himself.

Nor can the Cadwallon and Melamin story enter. It is too episodical.

Out with Ririd! he is good for nothing.

No rupture before Madoc's return, only the gathering of the storm. Cadwallon's narrative therefore communicates little, only the escape of Herma. The arrival of Madoc is while the treason is preparing.

Book 8. Therefore an interview with Coanocotzin, wherein no ground for suspicion appears, except that the King intreats

Madoc to remove. The demand of the child

for sacrifice follows; and the capture of Madoc is concerted between Tezozomoc, Dithial, and Rajenet.

I think there might be a brother of Hoitziton, cui nomen Hiolqui,' a young man deeply attached to Madoc, and in his absence learning much from Cadwallon, his own inclination rather favoured by the wisdom of his elder brother. Him I would attach to Gwenlhian; and when Hoitziton announces war to Madoc, the elder of intellect should with all affection and feeling and justice refuse to quit the Welsh, with whom he has lived, and to bear arms either against or with them. He should kill Rajenet. In the subsequent defeat of the Aztecans, a heavy grief possesses him, and thus the interest of pity is excited in Gwenlhian. After the earthquake he should

See Preface to collected edition of Poems :"It was my wish before Madoc could be considered as completed, to see more of Wales than I had yet seen. This I had some opportunity of doing in the autumn of 1801, with my old friends and schoolfellows, Charles Wynn and Peter Elmsley." P. x. As I transcribe this, the news reaches me that Mr. Wynn is no more. His name and Southey's are indissolubly connected together."-J. W. W.

but on the emigration, Hoitziton commands him as his King. His brother, who has acted the father's part toward him, and his dearest and nearest friend to remain. So a fraternal tie is thus established between Hoitziton and Madoc by the marriage of Gwenlhian and Hiolqui, and nothing else of love can be suffered in the poem.

Helhua sleeps in the Field of the Spirit before the Great Serpent puts on life, and is warned against the strangers.

The Kalendar.

THE death of Henry V. The hermit's denunciation at the siege of Dreux.2 He tells him how beautiful he remembered that country, how happy the people. A sermon, and war the text.

Crecy. This must be a morality upon the Prince's crest. The only existing effects of that slaughter!

Wallace, an ode.3-The populace exulting as he goes to execution, and telling of his rebellion and outlaw life and hiding places. Lay on him the whole weight of such infamy. Then burst out.

Bosworth, a ballad.-A woman expecting her husband from that fight, and the utter inconsequence to her of the public event.

Mary Magdalen.-A musing on that exquisite picture of Corregio.

Lady Day.-A Socinian hymn to the Virgin. Catholic nonsense alluded to. Boatman's evening hymn. The Protestants in an extreme here. What object more deeply interesting than the Mother of Jesus?

St. John will furnish two poems. The tale of the robber, and moralizings on his last advice, "Love one another."

Milton.-A hymn to the memory of the blind republican.

Rape of the Sabines.-The part of this history to dwell upon is the reconciliation

See "King Henry V. and the Hermit of Dreux."-Poems, p. 432.

3 See "Death of Wallace."-Ibid. p. 128. J. W. W.

The Battle of Murat affords matter for a long poem. On the anniversary of the fight Henry Holland thinks he knows a mendicant pilgrim by the pile of bones. The beggar Charles, so more to humble himself, relates his history to the man whom he had once so spurned. His obstinate ambition, escape across the lake, and murdering the page. A wounded fugitive, he is healed by a Beguine, a young woman, Swiss, who had lost her betrothed husband in the wars he had occasioned; she is one whom religion has comforted; and whose holy resignation wakes agony in him; he resolves to be known no more, and on the day of the fight annually to visit the pile of bones, the monument of his wickedness. It is remarkable that this pile should have been destroyed on the anniversary of that day.

Azincour.-The ruinous effects in England of that successful war.

Poictiers.-Glory. Detail of the consequences of such a battle. The field of battle. The distant wife.

The Conversion of St. Paul.-Conviction blazed on him. But who does not feel the inward monitor at times? Paul the hermit will make a fine serious narrative.

The story of St. Agnes is very fine. I wish I believed the miracle, for the rest must be true.

St. Cæcilia's is an amusing story. One might have invented it for its singularity. He was an odd angel—a kind of angelic incubus. Heywood would have been puzzled where to class him. I must not forget that admirable picture by Carlo Dolce, at Sir Lambert Blackwood's. Is it possible for poetry to equal it?

To the Dii Manes, a Christian hymn. Teresa. The progress of religious enthusiasm. This should be in Spenser's stanza.

Christmas. But Good Friday will be a better day for serious musings on Christianity, to condense the moral and political system of Christ. Christmas must be cheer

Of my former poems I must remove the New Year's Ode, the First of December, and the Hymn to the Penates.

The first of April.-Can I not make a kind of satyrical poem? as, contending for the prize of Folly, and exposing the serious follies of mankind.

Easter. I should think the development of my own religious opinions might make an interesting poem. If not, one might indulge the fullness of those devotional feelings, which here every thing seems to curb. Why are they so little understood, and so generally professed only by weak enthusiasts, who render them ridiculous; or knaves, who render them suspected? Perhaps Easter were the best day for a Millenarian hymn.

The Confirmation of Magna Charta by Henry III. Narrative blank verse. It might conclude with a solemn repetition of the curses denounced against those who should violate the charter.

The Discovery of America, an ode.-Beneficial to Europe, not for its gold, not for the conversion of some savages, but because liberty found shelter there, and returned from thence.

John the Baptist.-Herodias requesting his head. Narrative full, and declamatory.

Pultowa.1 Patkul. The future fortunes and reputation of Charles, an invective ode.

Llewelyn, an historic ode.-The prophecy alluded to. Glory of the defeated King, yet the event fortunate for Wales.

For Lammas Day.-Some particulars may be found in the Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 1, p. 92, Cadell, relative to the customs in Mid Lothian on that day.

Topographical books should always be consulted.

In vol. 4 of Plutarch's Morals is a Pagan vision of a future state, in the tract concerning those whom God is slow to punish.

See "The Battle of Pultowa."-Poems, p. 124.-J. W. W.

I should like to give it in a note to S. Patrick's Purgatory, but for its length.

December.-The senate passed a decree to make the year begin in that month, because Nero was born in it!—TACITUS, book xiii.' GORDON, vol. 2, p. 516.

L'Almanac chantant de M. Nau. L'Année sacrée de Pierre-Juste Sautel, Jesuite.

La Madelaine au Désert de la SainteBeaume, en Provence, par Pierre de St. Louis. Un chef-d'œuvre etonnant de ridicule et de mauvais goût," says the A. Sabatier.

The Death of Joan of Arc must be a regular drama.

Notes for Thalaba.

POISON from a red-headed Christian.Garcilasso, 1, 3; Nieuhoff, 97, 2. 'Three ounces of a red-haired wench. Dogs roll in a putrid carcase; yet the skin of man absorbs the poison.—Garcilasso, 2, 3. Mad dogs perhaps analogous; yet red hair a beauty then.-Absalom.

Ornaments. Incas' liberality to their subjects. Savages.-Kellet, p. 114.

Jugglers. Tavernier. Query, the science of the priests.

Northern Lights. There is a passage in Tacitus certainly descriptive of this phenomenon.-Pennant. R. B. account of prodigies. Noise of the rising sun, 3. C. 25.

Polygamy perhaps the radical evil of the east. Domestic slavery leading to the opinion that despotism was equally necessary in a state as in a family. Something like polygamy among the Jews.

Persians why better than the Turks with the same government and religion? painting allowed, and wine; more literature; courteous to Europeans, so as to be called the Frenchmen of the East.

I think there is a mistake here. The two passages in the "Annals" occur, lib. xv. c. 74, lib. xvi. 12. In the first, the words are "Mensis quoque Aprilis Neronis cognomentum acciperet." In the second," Aprilem eumdemque Neroneum."-J. W. W.

Balm. Martyrs' blood at Beder.-Carlos Magno. p. 44, 61. The balsam of Ferabraz. Sympathetic powder.-Sir K. Digby.

Fatalism. The story of Solomon. Our follies in England. The marked for death in Carlos Magno, 255. Inoculation strange, but beauty the most saleable commodity; and thus interest sets aside the creed.

Nightingale. Gongora. Strada. A. Phillips. Crashaw.

Palace of Irem. Gongora. Escurial. Magical travelling. History of North Guadalupe, p. 246. The woman who told her husband the devil was coming for her. The Frenchman's scheme for getting out of the whirl of the world; rising up at Paris, and dropping down at the antipodes. Jehan Molinet, 181.

Superstition of emitted light. Vasconcellos, 211, 229. Dee lights. Corpse

candles. Is Moses's forehead the fountain of this? The primary light which kindled them? The Mohammedans write often of his shining hand.

The balance of the dead.-Carlos Magno.

287.

Bird-parasol. Anchieta. The one-footed man in the Margarita Philosophica. Magic.-English Chaplain, 3, cap. 8. Bird of the Brain. Seat of the Soul. Otaheitean opinion.

A good mock-philosophic note might be made upon the changes produced in the earth by the falling in of the Dom-Daniel. The origin of the Maelstrom proved to have been this. Increase of cold1 also in those regions, the rush of the waters ha

1 Lord Dreghorn, &c.

The

Thus was the Dom-Daniel formed. explosion of the earth from the sun took place in consequence of the war in heaven. The Devil and his angels were projected with the fluid mass; but the heavier bodies in this projectile motion necessarily became outermost, and in their whirling vorticed the evil spirits into the centre. There their breath, naturally warm, and now more heated, formed the central caverns — air-bubbles in the fused earth. When they burrowed they made volcanos; | the mountains in which these craters are formed being only the mole-hills which they threw up.

"And thus they spend The little wick of life's poor shallow lamp, In playing tricks with nature, giving laws To distant worlds, and trifling in their own.' Cowper.

Coffee. Olearius. Parrot.-Bruce. Ablutions.

The Moors prohibited the

use of baths. 10. Okba fulfilling the prophecy. Dampier. Curious prophecy, that worked its own accomplishment.

Henna, the Portuguese phrase for a coxcomb.

"Some Jews have a diminutive opinion of the book of Esther, because the word Jehova is not to be found in all the extent thereof."-FULLER. Triple Reconciler, 131. Solomon-whom many, says Gaffarel, very inconsiderately reckon among the

damned.

Sailing carriages would be the best mode of travelling in Arabia.

In Adamson's Senegal. An account of riding ostriches.

B. Diaz, p. 4, says, that in some of his voyages they suffered so much from thirst that their lips and tongues had chaps in them with dryness.

Ubi apparuerint stellæ volantes."
Yahya Ebn Said.
Abul Pharajuis.

From the Koran.

"FEAR the fire, whose fewel is men and stones prepared for the unbelievers."— Ch. 2.

"VERILY those who disbelieve our signs, we will surely cast to be broiled in hell fire. So often as their skins shall be well burned, we will give them other skins in exchange, that they may take the sharper torment."-Ch. 4.

"THERE is no kind of beast on earth, nor fowl which flieth with its wings, but the same is a people like unto you; we have not omitted any thing in the book of our decrees; then unto their Lord shall they return."-Ch. 6.

"WITH him are the keys of the secret things, none knoweth them besides himself: he knoweth that which is on the dry land, and in the sea; there falleth no leaf but he knoweth it; neither is there a single grain in the dark parts of the earth, neither a green thing, nor a dry thing, but it is written in the perspicuous book.”—Ch. 6.

"IT is he who hath ordained the stars for you, that ye may be directed thereby in the darkness of the land, and of the sea." Ch. 6.

"He would not open his lip to speech, or suffer the fish of reply to swim in the sea of utterance."-BAHAR-DANUSH.

"By wheedling and coaxing, she prevailed upon him to remove the cover from the jar of secrecy, and pour the wine of his inmost thoughts into the cup of relation."-Ibid.