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FOOTNOTES:
[A] In the “Editor’s Table,” pages 419-423, will be found the pronunciation of hard words, and explanatory and suggestive notes on the Required Readings for April. The Readings in “English Literature” commence on page 423.
[B] A table land of Central Asia, called by those who dwell upon it “the roof of the world.” It touches the Hindoo-Koosh Mountains, and Lake Siri-Kol, the source of the Oxus, on the south. The plateau is 16,000 feet above the sea level, and is the water-shed of the continent. The climate is severe, and the population sparse.
[C] See The Chautauquan for January, 1883, page 181, col. 2.
[D] A vassal nation of the Kazarui; vid. The Chautauquan for October, 1882, p. 13, cols. 1 and 2. They had several large cities besides their capital.
[E] Pilgrims to the number of 50,000 and more, some of them from the wastes of Kamschatka, visit this monastery annually. The passage of entrance is six feet high, but wide enough for only one person to walk in, and thick with soot from the torches of pilgrims. Eighty bodies of the saints are preserved, exposed to view, enveloped in wrappers of silk, ornamented with silver and gold. A paper on each breast bears the name, and in some instances, a brief record of the deeds of the deceased. Their hands are turned outward to receive the kisses of the devout. Near by are the cells, into which the saints had built themselves, leaving no aperture, save a small square for the handing in of food.