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friend Dr. Clarke, whose name requires no comment withthe public, but whose sanction will: add tenfold weight tojny testimony, to insert the fallowing extract from a veryobliging letter of his to me, as a note to the above lines:

“When the last of the Metopes was taken from the Par­ thenon , and, in moving of it, great part of the superstruc-ture with one of the triglyphs was thrown down by theworkmen whom X^ord Elgin employed, the Disdar, who be-held the mischief done to the building, took his pipe fromhis mouth, dropped a tear, and, in a supplicating tone ofvoice, said to Lusieri ; '/'i-'log ! — I was present.”

The Disdar alluded to was the father of the presentDisdar.

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Where was thine Aegis, Pallas! that appalled

Stern Alaric and Havoc on their way ?

Stanza xiv. lines l and 2.

According to Zozlmus, Minerva and Achilles frightenedAlaric from the Acropolis ; but others relate that the Go-thic king was nearly as mischievous as the Scottish peer.—See Cha.k»i.er»

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— the netted canopy.

Stanza xviri. line 2.

The netting to prevent blocks or splinters from fallingon deck during action.

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But not in silence pass Calypso’s isles.

Stanza xxrx. line 1.

Goza is said to have been the island of Calypso,