[9] An allusion to the Second Sight.
[10] See that fine description of the sudden animation of the Palladium in the second book of the Æneid.
[11] The bull, Apis.
[12] The Crocodile.
[13] So numerous were the Deities of Egypt, that, according to an antient proverb, it was in that country less difficult to find a god than a man.
[14] The Hieroglyphics.
[15] The Catacombs, in which the bodies of the earliest generations yet remain without corruption, by virtue of the gums that embalmed them.
[16] “The Persians,” says Herodotus, “reject the use of temples, altars, and statues. The tops of the highest mountains are the places chosen for sacrifices.” I. 131. The elements, and more particularly Fire, were the objects of their religious reverence.
[17] An imitation of some wonderful lines in the sixth
Æneid.
[18] See Tacitus, 1. xiv. c. 29.