[85] Pottinger’s Belochistan.
[86] Num. xxii. 41.
[87] Milton.
[88] Top. Dist. ii. c. 34.
[89] Had Bede even asserted that the Round Towers were fire receptacles, it would not obtain my assent, as they were as great an enigma in that venerable writer’s day as they have been ever since, until now that their secret is about to be unveiled.
[90] The derivation of this word not being generally known, I may be allowed to subjoin it. It is the Irish for dove, as columba is the Latin, and was assigned to the above place in honour of St. Columbe, who was surnamed Kille, from the many churches which he had founded.
[91] Trans. Roy. Ir. Acad. vol. xv.
[92] This adjective is not here applied to our western Irin, i.e. Ireland, but to the eastern Iran, i.e. Persia.
[93] “Virginesque Vestæ legit, Albâ oriundum sacerdotium, et genti conditoris haud alienum” (Livy, lib. i. cap. xx.).
[94] Horace.