These have been compressed.

I was the more inclined to this course, as the great subject of the DISCOVERY OF AMERICA is in the hands of such poets as Mr Southey and Mr Rogers.
DONHEAD, _Nov.

3, 1804._ [152] Dedicated to His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV.) ANALYSIS.
BOOK THE FIRST.
The book opens with the resting of the Ark on the mountains of the great Indian Caucasus, considered by many authors as Ararat: the present state of the _inhabited_ world, contrasted with its melancholy appearance immediately after the flood.

The poem returns to the situation of our forefathers on leaving the ark; beautiful evening described.

The Angel of Destruction appears to Noah in a dream, and informs him that although he and his family alone have escaped, the VERY ARK, which was the means of his present preservation, shall be the cause of the future triumph of Destruction.
In his dream, the evils in consequence of the discovery of America, the slave-trade, _et cet._, are set before him.