I have omitted a long list of trees, the names of which, conveying no notion to an English ear, and wanting the characteristic epithets of Ovid's or of Spenser's well-known and picturesque forest description, would only perplex the reader with several lines of unintelligible words.

To the Indian ear these names, pregnant with pleasing associations, and descriptive in their etymological meaning, would no doubt convey the same delight as those of the Latin or English poet.] [Footnote 75: p.33.l.9.

_--serpents, elves, and giants saw_.

Kosegarten has translated this word 'elves:' they are a kind of evil spirit.

In Menu, ii.