The circumstance related; but the extraordinary appearance of a supernatural shade over the waters at a distance excites many fears and superstitions.

The attempt, however, to penetrate the mystery, is resolved on.

Zarco reaches the island of Madeira; tomb found; which introduces the episode.

At the tomb of the first discoverer (whether this be fanciful or not, is nothing to poetry) the Spirit of Discovery casts her eyes over the globe; she pursues De Gama to the East; history of Camoens touched on; Columbus; sees with triumph the discovery of a new world, and from thence extends her ideas till the great globe is encompassed; after which she returns to the "tranquil bosom of the Thames," with Drake, the first circumnavigator, whose ship, after its various perils, being laid up in that river, gives rise to some brief concluding reflections..