Scott, with his usual skill, has made use of this incident in "The Lord of the Isles," but he ascribes to patriotic feeling what had a less lofty origin, which was an exercise of his license as a poet.[A]

"Mystic Isles of the South Seas" precedes in experience my former book, "White Shadows in the South Seas,"

good-bye feastBack at the TiareA talk with LovainaThe Cercle BougainvilleDeath of DavidMy visit to the cemeteryOff for the Marquesas MYSTIC ISLES OF THE SOUTH SEAS Chapter I Departure from San FranciscoNature man left behindFellow-passengers on the Noa-NoaTragedy of the Chinese punditStrange stories of the South SeasThe Tahitian Hula.

Chapter II The Discovery of TahitiMarvelous isles and peopleHailed by a windjammerMiddle of the voyageTahiti on the horizonAshore in Papeete.

Was it for me to wander among those fabulous coral isles flung for a thousand miles upon the sapphire sea, like wreaths of lilies upon a magic lake?

the garden of Armi'da, where Rinaldo was detained, and which Tasso places in one of the Canary Isles, has been identified with San Borandan.

Familiar to the childish mind were tales Of rock-girt isles amid a desert sea, Where unexpected stretch the flowery vales To soothe the shipwrecked sailor's misery.

To return from the Grecian isles to Milwaukie.

I could not but wonder, as he looked at the dim hills of the Odenwald, along the eastern horizon, whether they called up in his mind the purple isles of his native Archipelago.

I am now incapable of any stronger feeling, until I see the Egean from the Grecian Isles.

The clear blue sky had vanished, and a leaden cloud hung low on the Mediterranean, hiding the shores of Corsica and the rooky isles of Gorgona and Capraja.

So, o'er the lagune We glided: and from that funereal bark I leaned, and saw the city; and could mark How from their many isles, in evening's gleam, Its temples and its palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

But the first of his original poems was the Lay of the Last Minstrel, published in 1805, and followed, in quick sucession by Marmion, the Lady of the Lake, Rokeby, the Lord of the Isles, and a volume of ballads and lyrical pieces, all issued during the years 1806-1814.

On the field of Waterloo, on "the castled crag of Drachenfels," "by the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone," in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, in the Coliseum at Rome, and among the "Isles of Greece," the tourist is compelled to see with Byron's eyes and under the associations of his pilgrimage.

In 1823, breaking away from his life of selfish indulgence in Italy, Byron threw himself into the cause of Grecian liberty, which he had sung so gloriously in the Isles of Greece.

" Martin, in his Western Isles of Scotland, says: "There are also the cleek geese.

The shells in which this fowl is said to be produced, are found in several isles sticking to trees by the bill; of this kind I have seen many,the fowl was covered by a shell, and the head stuck to the tree by the bill,but never saw any of them with life in them upon the tree; but the natives told me that they had observed them to move with the heat of the sun."See

Mention is made in Martin's Western Isles, of a similar reason for eating seals in Lent.

You can get one at the Leeward Isles betchune here an' sun-down....

A corvette of the French navy once encountered near the Canary Isles a complete specimen of one of these monsters floating upon the sea, sick or wounded.

The play has begun, and some member of the company, we know not who, has recited the archaic prologue, which asks: "What are the Charmes, by which these happy Isles Hence gain'd Heaven's brightest and eternal smiles?

REASON, JOYCE. Bran the bronzesmith: a tale of the bronze age In the British Isles.

God's pocket; the story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Junior, of Cranberry Isles.

Mary, Queen of Scotland, and the Isles.

McCULLOCH'S ISLES OF SCOTLAND, 4 vols.