[45] Dean Stanley, “Syria and Palestine,” pp. 290-294.
[46] Laorty-Hadji, “La Syrie, la Palestine, et la Judée.”
[47] Shelley, “Poetical Works”—Stanzas Written in Dejection, &c.
[48] A parasang varies in length; in some parts of Persia it measures thirty, in others fifty furlongs.
[49] Such quicksands are found at some parts of the British coast, and the reader will remember that in one of them occurs the catastrophe of Scott’s romance, “The Bride of Lammermoor.”
[50] Miss Martineau, “Eastern Life: Past and Present.”
[51] Coleridge, “Poetical Works”—Kubla Khan.
[52] Trémaux, “Egypte et Ethiopie,” 1re partie, c. vii.
[53] M. Charles Martins, “Du Spitzberg au Sahara” (Paris, 1866), pp. 555, et seq.
[54] Martins “Du Spitzberg au Sahara,” p. 556.