'And too's at hand, to wham ye fled
Frae Britain's cauld, frae misery's bed;
Owre seas tempestuous shivering sped,
To Friendship's flame;
Whar kindling warm, in sunbeams clad,
She hails her Graham.*

'Wi' him (let health but favouring smile)
Ance mair ye'll greet fair Albion's isle!
In some calm nook life's cares beguile
Atween us twa:

Feed the faint lamp wi' virtue's oil-
Then- slip awa!'

The flatterer ceas'd, and smil'd adieu,
Just wav'd her hand, and mild withdrew!
Cheer'd wi' the picture (fause or true)
I check'd despair,

And frae that moment made a vow

To-mourn nae mair.

* John Graham, Esq. of Three Mile River, Jamaica; under whose kind and hospitable roof the present poem was composed.

NOTES.

NOTE a, p. 394, 1. 13.

Fresh from pimento's groves that grew.'

"THE pimento trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of the island, where they form the most delicious groves that can possibly be imagined, filling the air with fragrance, and giving reality, though in a very distant part of the globe, to our great poet's descriptions of those balmy gales which convey to the delighted voyager

"Sabean odours from the spicy shore

Of Araby the bless'd.

Cheer'd with the grateful smell, old ocean smiles."

I do not believes that there is, in all the vegetable creation, a tree of greater beauty than a young pimento. The trunk, which is of a grey colour, smooth and shining, and altogether free of bark, rises to the height of fifteen or twenty feet. It then branches out on all sides, richly clothed with leaves of a deep green, somewhhat like those of the bay tree; and these, in the month of July and

August, are beautifully contrasted and relieved by an exuberance of white flowers. It is remarkable, that the leaves are equally fragrant with the fruit; and, I am told, yield in distillation a delicate odoriferous oil, which is very commonly used in the medical dispensaries of Europe for oil of cloves.' Edward's Hist. of the West Indies, 8vo. vol. ii. p. 297.

NOTE b, p. 394, 1. 19.

"Under the banyan's pillar'd shade.'

This monarch of the woods,' says Mr. Edwards, in his elegant history, whose empire extends over Asia and Africa, as well as the tropical parts of America, is described by or divine poet with great

exactness.

"The fig tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd,
But such as at this day to Indians known
In Malabar and Decan, spreads his arms,
Branching so broad and long, that in the ground
The bearded twigs take root and daughters grow
Above the mother tree; a pillar'd shade
High over-arched, and echoing walks between."
Paradise Lost, book is.

It is called in the East Indies, the "banyan tree." Mr. Marsden gives the following account of the dimensions of one near Mangee, twenty miles west of Patna in Bengal. Diameter, 363 to 375 feet; circumference of the shadow at noon, 1116 feet;

circumference of the several stems, in number fifty or sixty, 621. Hist. Sumatra, p. 131.

NOTE C, 394, 1. 27.

Humm'd soft the bird o' peerless plume.'

"The humming bird, the most beautiful as well as the most diminutive of the feather'd race, is fond of building its nest in the tamarind, orange, or bastard cedar-tree; on account, I should suppose, of the superabundance of their shade. The nest is made with particular art and beauty. The workmanship, indeed, is no less exquisite than wonderful, and seem to be, in an essential manner, adapted as the residence of this interesting and lovely bird.' Beckford's Descriptive Acent of the Island of Jamaica. -For a more part. ar description, see vol. i. p. 363, 8vo. edition of the same work.

NOTE d, p. 395, 1. 4.

'Bepictur'd o'er.'

The following very animated, though inflated description of a tropical sky at sunset, is taken from the same author:-'Of the picturesque representation of the clouds in Jamaica, there is an allmost daily and unspeakable variety; and the sunset of that climate has charms to arrest the regard,