Down Saint Mary's sinuous torrent Fared we on, in goodlier fire-ship, To the mere that minds the Pale Face 2. "Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark-purple spheres of sea." “ Πασάων δ' ὑπερ ἤγε κάρη ἔχει ἠδὲ μέτωπα, And our helmsman steer'd us westward To the verdure-mantling channel,a The Strait or Straits of Mackinaw. b = Whither rolls broad Mitchi-Gahming b From lush, blossom-spangled prairie, d с From charr'd greenery of some old world For the heirs of myriad cycles,— Rolls, o'erbrimming, forth, to mingle Great Waters (see a. n. 33). Michigan is a French abbreviation. Lake Michigan was named by its European discoverers Lac Illinois. Another name was Lac d'Orleans (see a. n. 80). с The first shipment of made in 1838, and con "Thirty years ago breadstuffs were sent from Buffalo westward to supply settlers in the wilderness. That wilderness has now become the granary of the world. wheat at Chicago for the eastward was sisted of only 2000 bushels during the year. In 1855 upwards of 20,000,000 bushels were shipped. During the month of October last 12,483,797 bushels of grain and flour were received at Buffalo; and, during the thirteen months ending the 31st of October last, the receipts at Buffalo were 51,969,142 bushels of grain and flour." (A paragraph headed American corn in the Times for Dec. 5, 1861.) Alluding to the coal-fields in the State of Ohio. Westward steer'd us, to those fair holms, Mottled greenwood, yellow mere-marge,—e Queen of May among her fellows,— e Lady of Hesperian islets! Sure, had the blithe gods of Hellas Known thee, here had rear'd their altars Artemis then and Apollo; Pallas then and Aphroditè Crown'd thy flowery 72 knolls and white cliffs With gay shrine and stalwart fortress,h Shakespeare's "yellow sands" to the life. f Mackinaw (a. n. 72). See Virgil, Æn. i. 494-504, and his model in Homer's Odyss. vi. 102-109. h Pallas was, par excellence, the Goddess of Strongholds, and in the remains of ancient Greek literature her epithets, as such, are numerous. Stout hoar stone1, lithe pearly column; i Alluding to the 'Cyclopeän walls.' i Not only had this island that gigantic statue of the SunGod, which, as the Colossus of Rhodes, was numbered among the seven wonders of the ancient world, but her gymnasium and her temple of the Vine-God were adorned with a profusion of statues, and the highest point of her mountain-chain, rising 4,560 feet above the Mediterranean, was crowned with a temple dedicated to the worship of the King of the Gods. On the strength of her name, she claimed to be, par excellence, the "land of roses,” and placed that flower on her coins. * This island was supposed to be the chosen haunt of Aphroditė, the Goddess of Beauty. The highest points of the range which almost entirely occupies its surface are 7000 feet above the Levant. On the north side "the chain is bold and rugged, on the south side the scenery is still bolder, presenting a deeplyserrated outline with thickly-wooded steeps, which are broken by masses of limestone, or furrowed by deep picturesque valleys, in which grow the narcissus, the anemonè, and the ranunculus." (Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, ed. Dr. W. Smith.) This island-the modern Cerigo, and one of the seven Ionian islands under British protection-is represented by the poets as not only a favourite haunt of Aphroditè, but also as the first piece of ground that she trod after issuing from the foam of the sea, whence she sprang according to the fanciful etymology of the ancients. Pataram, Sunium ", and Ægina; ° E'en the Cyclad rock had ever Floated fameless and unhallow'd. m This ancient Lycian city, on the south-west coast of Asia Minor, was famed for its temple and oracle of Apollo, whose winter-abode it was supposed to be. Its site was, till recently, covered with remains of temples, altars, and sculptures. n Sunium, the southeastern headland of Attica, and the apex of that triangular little commonwealth, is now called Cape Colonna, from its being crowned with the ruined columns of a temple of white marble, that was dedicated to the worship of Pallas, the guardian-goddess of the state. We learn from the poet Aristophanes that Poseidon, the God of the Sea, was also worshipped there, and Dr. Wordsworth (Athens and Attica) found what might be, he thought, remains of his temple. This island was adorned with temples of Pallas and Aphroditè, as well as other deities. The ruins of what must have been a magnificent one grace a lofty eminence that commands a most striking prospect. Sculptures exhumed from that spot are preserved at Munich, and casts of them in the British Museum. P The islet-system to which Delos was considered to belong bore the name of Cyclades from their encircling it. It is the smallest of the group, and about five miles in circumference. The story was that it had been called out of the Ægean deep by the trident of the God of the Sea, but was a floating island until the King of the Gods fastened it to the bottom by adamantine chains, that it might be a secure resting-place to the goddess Leto for the birth of her twins, Apollo and Artemis. Though whole shiploads of remains of ancient art have been |