[2241] From the returns quoted at page 333, note 3.
[2242] Zeitschrift des Oesterreichischen Apothekervereines, 1877. 14.
[2243] Fig. in Bentley and Trimen’s Medic. Plants, part 18 (1877).
[2244] Seemann, Flora Vitiensis, 1865-73. 210-215.
[2245] The natural woods having been nearly exhausted, the tree is now under culture in the island. Catalogue des produits des colonies françaises, Exposition de 1878, p. 332; they state there that the island of Nossi-bé, on the north-western coast of Madagascar, also supplies some sandal-wood.
[2246] Whether Santalum lanceolatum Br., a tree found throughout N. and E. Australia, and called sandal-wood by the colonists, is an object of trade, we know not.
[2247] Vincent, Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients, ii. (1807) 378.
[2248] Migne, Patrologiæ Cursus, series Græca, tom. 88. 446.
[2249] I. 222 in the work [quoted in the Appendix].
[2250] They are 11 feet high and 9 feet wide, and richly carved out of sandal-wood; they were constructed for the temple of Somnath in Guzerat, once esteemed the holiest temple in India. On its destruction in a.d. 1025, the gates were carried off to Ghuzni in Afghanistan, where they remained until the capture of that city by the English in 1842, when they were taken back to India. They are now preserved in the citadel of Agra. For a representation of the gates, see Archæeologia, xxx. (1844) pl. 14.