[927] Wilson, J. G., Gazetteer, i., 1044.
[928] Eckenstein, L., Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes, p. 154.
[929] Dan or Don is one of the main European root river names; it occurs notably in the story of the Danaides who carried water in broken urns to fill a bottomless vessel, and again in Danaus who is said to have relieved Argos from drought.
[930] P. 242.
[931] Herbert, A., Cyclops, p. 154.
[932] Wright, T., Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 162.
[933] Ibid., p. 231.
[934] Travels in the East, p. 2.
[935] “This was the round church of St. Mary, divided into two stories by slabs of stone; in the upper part are four altars; on the eastern side below there is another, and to the right of it an empty tomb of stone, in which the Virgin Mary is said to have been buried; but who moved her body, or when this took place, no one can say. On entering this chamber, you see on the right-hand side a stone inserted in the wall, on which Christ knelt when He prayed on the night in which He was betrayed; and the marks of His knees are still seen on the stone, as if it had been as soft as wax.”
[936] Wright comments upon this: “Dr. Clarke is the only modern traveller who has given any notice of these subterranean chambers or pits, which he supposes to have been ancient places of idolatrous worship”.