[35] We take most of these details from a note by M. A. de Montaiglon published in the Bulletin des Sociétés Savantes.
[36] Mat., 1881, p. 371.
[37] Bul. Soc. Anth., 1884, p. 816, etc.
[38] Fouqué, Nature, 1876, second week, p. 65.
[39] Book vi., chap. xvi. and xx.—Pliny the Elder, uncle and father by adoption of Pliny the Younger, lost his life in this catastrophe, which took place in 79 A. D.
[40] Cigalla: Acad. des Sciences, November 12, 1866. Fouqué: Acad. des Sciences, March 25, 1867. “Un Pompéi Préhistorique,” Revue des Deux-Mondes, October 15, 1869.
[41] Schliemann: “Troy and its Remains,” translated by Philip Smith, London, Murray, 1875; “Ilios Ville et Pays des Troyens,” translated by Mme. E. Egger, Paris, Hachette, 1885; E. Burnouf: Revue des Deux-Mondes, January 1, 1874; Virchow: “Alt Trojanische Gräber and Schädel.”
[42] Iliad, canto v., v., 692.
[43] Egyptologists tell us that in the fourth year of the reign of Ramses II., or about 1406 B.C., the Hittites placed themselves at the head of a coalition against the Egyptian Pharaoh. With these Hittites, or Khittas, whose descendants still dwell in the north of Syria, were the Mysians, the Lycians, the Dardanians, and other tribes.
[44] “Amérique Préhistorique” (Masson), translated by Nancy Bell (N. D’Anvers), and published by Murray, London; Putnam, New York.