[14] Op. cit. pp. 134, 174.

[15] Ambassade de Don Garcia de Silva Figueroa en Perse, traduit par de Wicqfort (Paris, 1667), p. 5. The Spanish original does not appear in the Catalogue of the British Museum, where, however, may be found the tract De Rebus Persarum, Antwerp, 1620.

[16] See the letter of Don Garcia in Purchas, His Pilgrimes, ii. 1534.

[17]The Preacher’s Travels, penned by J. C., sometime student in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford,’ London, 1611, p. 84.

[18] He only mentions one (p. 146). He does not seem to have noticed any difference in the animals in the farther Portico.

[19]Brute et grossière estampe’: Ambassade, p. 163. We have already said that this statement is incorrect. Supra, [p. 11].

[20] Viaggi di Pietro della Valle (Brighton, 1843), i. 382.

[21] Viaggi, ii. 231.

[22] Viaggi, vol. ii. For his account of Persepolis see Lettera xv. pp. 228-68.

[23] They are given on p. 253.