[24] See [Plate VI].
[25] See [Plate VII]. in which they are incidentally introduced.
[26] That the same custom prevailed anciently in the East may be inferred from St. Matthew xxii, 2-4. St. Luke xiv. 16. 17.
[27] In the Journal this is the first notice of the Istakball, which so frequently recurs in the future progress of the mission, as an honorary assemblage called forth to receive a distinguished traveller, and to conduct him in his passage.
[28] “I have frequently amused myself in feeling their skulls, to ascertain if they are as soft now as when Herodotus described them; but I never yet found one that was not hard and impenetrable.”
[29] See the notes at the end.
[30] [Plate IX]. which marks the situation of some of the sculptures.
[31] See the Fragments. The horse, the chariot, and the cavalry. [Plate XII].
[32] “From the groves of orange trees at Kauzeroon, the bees cull a celebrated honey.”
[33] Niebuhr calls it Tchinar Raddar; he encamped there. Tom. II. p. 91.