[214] The italics are mine.
[215] Churchill, Collection of Voyages, vol. v. p. 213; London, 1746.
[216] Ulyssis Aldrovandi Serpentum et Draconum Historiæ; Bononiæ, 1640.
[217] Scaliger, lib. iii. Miscell. cap. i. See ante, p. 182, “Winged Serpents.”
[218] De Naturâ Rerum, lib. vii., cap. 29.
[219] Athanasii Kircheri Mundus Subterraneus, Book viii. 27.
[220] Probably many of my readers are acquainted with Schiller’s poem based on this story, and with the beautiful designs by Retsch illustrating it.
[221] Harris, Collection of Voyages, vol. i. p. 474; London, 1764.
[222] De Moribus Brachmanorum, p. 63. Strabo, lib. 16, p. 75. Bochart Hieroz, p. 11, lib. 3, cap. 13.
[223] Ælian, De Animal., lib. xv. cap. 21.