[1719] Supposed by Hardouin to have been the town of Alise, in Auxois.
[1720] See B. iv. c. 33.
[1721] The names of various kinds of carriages, the form of which is now unknown.
[1722] Both tin and lead can be fused in paper, when it is closely wrapped around them.
[1723] In reality India did and does possess them both; but it is possible that in those days it was not considered worth while to search for them.
[1724] The “lead” of the moderns.
[1725] Mr. T. Wright, the eminent antiquarian, is of opinion that the extensive Roman lead mines at Shelve, in Shropshire, are here alluded to. See the Illustrated London News, Oct. 4, 1856.
[1726] Probably from Ovetum, the modern Oviedo.—B.
[1727] So called from the island of Capraria. See B. iii. cc. 11, 12, and B. vi. c. 37.
[1728] See B. iii. c. 12.