[424] See B. xxiv. c. 50.
[425] See B. ix. cc. 20, 44, 74, 78.
[426] “Ablato priore lumine.” Hardouin justly ridicules this assertion. This ink, as Ajasson remarks, is intensely black.
[427] See B. ix. c. 71, and Chapter [36] of this Book.
[428] This seems to be the meaning of “adeo ut baculum ita præluceat.”
[429] Some MSS. have here “164,” the Bamberg MS. and others “144.” Owing to the corrupt state of the text in many parts of this Chapter, it is impossible to say which reading is correct.
[430] “Invenire non potuimus” seems a preferable reading to “invenire potuimus.”
[431] Modern Ceylon. See B. vi. cc. 23, 24, B. vii. c. 2, and B. ix. c. 54.
[432] “Quæ nascuntur certa sunt.” A bold assertion. The various fishes now known amount to many thousands; and there are still vast numbers, no doubt, with which science has not hitherto become acquainted.
[433] “Belluæ.”