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FOOTNOTES:
[1] "Part of the funereal rites of the Moors was to convey the corpse to the bath."—Urquhart, from "Mision Historial de Marueccos."
[2] F. W. Ainsworth: "Journey to Kalah Sherghat and Al Hadhr in 1840" (Transactions of the Geographical Society).
[3] "The Pillars of Hercules; or, a Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848." By David Urquhart, M.P. 1850.
[4] "The Lebanon (Mount Souria): a History and a Diary." By David Urquhart. 1860.
[5] What would Mr. Ellis say of a country in which there existed no "cleansing apparatus" whatever?—for example, his native country.
[6] Pliny, in one of his letters, relates, in reference to the reading of poetical productions in the gymnasia:—"This year has proved extremely fertile in poetical productions: during the whole month of April, scarce a day has passed wherein we have not been entertained with the recital of some poem. It is a pleasure to me to find, notwithstanding there seems to be so little disposition in the public to attend assemblies of this kind, that the sciences still flourish, and men of genius are not discouraged from producing their performances."
[7] A circus attached to Roman gardens, for riding or driving.
[8] The state meal of the Romans, usually taken at the ninth hour—i.e., three P.M.