Synopsis

"That it was full of monsters who devoured canoes as well as men; that the devil stopped its age, and sunk all those who ventured to approach the place where he stood; and that the river itself at last was swallowed up in the bottomless gulf of a tremendous whirlpool."—Quarterly Review. "Hic ver purpureum: varios hic flumina circum Fundit humus flores: hic candida populus antro Imminet, et lentæ texunt umbracula vites."