53 .-- Ed.] [Footnote Z: Solomon Gesner (or Gessner), a landscape artist, etcher, and poet, born at Zuerich in 1730, died in 1787.

His 'Tod Abels' (the death of Abel), though the poorest of all his works, became a favourite in Germany, France, and England.

It was translated into English by Mary Collyer, a 12th edition of her version appearing in 1780.

As 'The Death of Abel' was written before 1760, in the line "he who penned, the other day," Wordsworth probably refers to some new edition of the translation .-- Ed.] [Footnote a: Edward Young, author of 'Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality' .-- Ed.] [Footnote b: In Argyleshire .-- Ed.] [Footnote c: Permission was given by Henry I.to hold a "Fair" on St.
Bartholomew's day .-- Ed.] [Footnote d: In one of the MS.

books in Dorothy Wordsworth's handwriting, on the outside leather cover of which is written, "May to December 1802," there are some lines which were evidently dictated to her, or copied by her, from the numerous experimental efforts of her brother in connection with this autobiographical poem.