FOOTNOTES:
[1] The odour of this flower produces violent head-aches.
[2] Une laine, ou plutôt un poil, qu’on nomme touz, se prend sur les poitrines des chèvres sauvages des montagnes de Cashmire.—Bernier.
It is of this wool the Cashmirian shawls are formed.
[3] See Kindersley’s History of the Hindu Mythology.
[4] “C’est dans le Shasta que l’on trouve ’histoire de la Chute des Anges.”—Essai sur les Mœurs des Nations. P. 2, T. 2.
[5] This singular spectacle frequently presents itself to the eye of the traveller in the hilly parts of the Carnatic, as well as in Upper India, particularly about the Ghauts, which are covered with the bamboo tree.
[6] One of the varieties of the asbestos, which when long exposed to air, dissolves into a downy matter, unassailable by common fire.