[1] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, book x. chap. xi. 7.
[2] "Thou art to me as the beam of the east rising in a strange land."—Ossian.
[3] Between five and six hundred English miles. South American postilions at the present day ride six hundred miles a week for a bare living.
[4] Herodotus, book iii. chap. lxxii.
[5] The Mazdayashnian Dakhma, or place of death. This figure represents the ground-plan of the modern Parsi Tower of Silence.
[6] The term "universal agent" has been used in the mysticism of ages, to designate that subtle and all-pervading fluid, of which the phenomena of light, heat, electricity and vitality are considered to be but the grosser and more palpable manifestations.
[7] Hermes Trismegistus, Poemandres xi. 2.
[8] Istakhar, called since the conquest of Alexander, Persepolis.
[9] Probably the oldest hymns in the Avesta language.
[10] Ahura, Jupiter. Tistrya, Sirius.