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304 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IV -CranSlatt into Eattn $ro£f His entrance into the city was conducted by order of Ferdi- nand and Isabella with pomp suitable to the great event which added such distinguishing lustre to their reign The people whom he brought along with him from the countries which he had dis- covered marched first and by their singular complexion the wild peculiarity of their features and uncouth finery appeared like men of another species Next to them were carried the ornaments of gold fashioned by the rude art of the natives the grains of gold found in the mountains and dust of the same metal gathered in the rivers After these appeared the various com- modifies of the new-discovered countries together with their curious productions Columbus himself closed the procession and attracted the eyes of all the spectators who gazed with admiration on the extraordinary man whose superior sagacity and fortitude had conducted their countrymen by route concealed from past ages to the knowledge of new world Ferdinand and Isabella received him clad in their royal robes and seated upon throne under magnificent canopy When he approached they stood up and raising him as he kneeled to kiss their hands commanded hiin to take his seat upon chair prepared for him and to give circumstantial account of his voyage -CranSlate into Latin degiacs Sweetly breathing vernal air That with kind warmth dost repair Winter's ruins from whose breast All the gums and spice of the East Borrow their perfumes whose eye Gilds the morn and clears the sky Whose dishevell'd tresses shed Pearls upon the violet-bed On whose brow with calm smiles drest The halcyon sits and builds her nest