Note 4 — INTRODUCTION.
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He turned; but what strange thoughts perplexed his soul, When, lo! no more attracted to the Pole, The Compass, faithless to the circling Vane, Fluttered and fixed, fluttered and fixed again! At length, as by some unseen Hand imprest, It sought, with trembling energy, the West! ‘Ah, no!’ he cried, and calmed his anxious brow; ‘Ill, nor the signs of ill, ’tis Thine to show; Thine but to lead me where I wished to go!’ Rogers’ Columbus.