The concluding incident is from the combat of Maya, which took place in the same neighbourhood a few days previously, and is thus described by Captain Norton, of the 34th regiment.--“The ninety-second met the advancing French column first with its right wing drawn up in line, and after a most destructive fire and heavy loss on both sides, the remnant of the right wing retired, leaving a line of killed and wounded that appeared to have no interval. The French column advanced up to this line and then halted, the killed and wounded of the ninety-second forming a sort of rampart; the left wing then opened its fire on the column, and as I was but a little to the right of the ninety-second, I could not help reflecting painfully how many of the wounded of their right wing must have unavoidably suffered from the fire of their comrades.” This frightful butchery appears to excite the enthusiasm of some of its military historians. “So dreadful was the slaughter,” says Napier, “that it is said the advancing enemy was actually stopped by the heaped mass of dead and dying; and then the left wing of that noble regiment coming down from the higher ground smote wounded friends and exulting foes alike, as mingled together they stood or crawled before its fire. * * The stern valour of the ninety-second, principally composed of Irishmen, would have graced Thermopylæ.”--_Hist. War. Penins._ book xxi. chap. 5. III. “When Roland’s horn with its tremendous sound.” La dove il corno sona tanto forte Dopo la dolorosa rotta. Pulci. VIII. “Fired with the generous vintage, which gave all The ruffian forth,” &c. Κράτιστον μὲν τῆς ἀκμῆς τῶν χαιρῶν τυγχάνειν· ἐπειδὴ δὲ δυσκαταμαθέτως ἔχουσιν. κ. τ. λ. Isoc. _ad Nicocl._ “It is most excellent to enjoy moderately the height of felicity; but this men find most difficult to learn.” X. “Like Hebe for this flagrant Hercules.” Τέρπεται ἐν θαλίῃς, καὶ ἔχει καλλίσφυρον Ἥβην, Παῖδα Διὸς μεγάλοιο καὶ Ἥρης χρυσοπεδίλου. Hom. _Od._ xi. 602. “Flagrans amor Herculis Heben.”--Propert I. 13. 23. XII. “Which like Camilla’s battle-axe, I ween.” “Rapit indefessa bipennem.”--Virg. _Æn._ xi. 651. “When fiery swift her footsteps past the steed.” ----“Pernicibus ignea plantis, Transit equum cursu.” --_Ib._ 718. XIII. “Girt by her crescent-shielded Amazons.” “Fœminea exsultant lunatis agmina peltis.” --Virg. _Æn._ xi. 663. XVII. “Hast thou not seen a clear and sparkling rill, &c.” Qualis in aerii pellucens vertice montis Rivus, muscoso prosilit e lapide; Qui cùm de pronâ præceps est valle volutus, Per medium densi transit iter populi. Catul. lxvi. XVIII. “A soldier frank, pellucid was his mind.”