[25] Voyage dans la Chine par Avril, Liv. iii., p. 194.
[26] Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol. i., p. 269.
[27] Worship of Priapus.
[28] Ibid., p 48.
[29] For some ingenious and learned observations on the Tau or Crux Ansata see Classical Journal, No. 39, p. 182.
[30] Chap. ix., v. 3. "And the Lord said unto him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the forehead of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof."
[31] For a description of some of the above-mentioned Crosses, see [Plate V.], also "Voyage dans la basse et la haute-Egypte pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte, 1802 et 1829," par Denon—Planches 48, 78.
[32] This city was the birth place of the deity Priapus, whose orgies were there constantly celebrated. Alexander the Great, in his Persian expedition, resolved to destroy Lampsacus on account of its many vices, or rather from a jealousy of its adherence to Persia; but it was saved by the artifice of the philosopher Anaxamenes, who, having heard that the king had sworn to refuse whatever he should ask him, begged him to destroy the city.
[33] Journal d'Henri III. par l'Etoile. Tom. 5.
[34] Historie Religieuse du Calendrier, p. 420.