[23] Robert Sewell. Lists of Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency of Madras. Vol i. p. 238 (1882.) Citation by M. Barth. I have not been able to consult this work.
[24] Buchanan. A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar, etc. 3 vols. 4to. London, 1807.
[25] James Rennell. Description Historique et Géographique de l’Indostan. Translated from the English. Paris, an. VIII. (1800). 3 vols., 8vo and atlas 4to.
[26] Dow. History of Hindustan. Translated from the Persian of Ferishta. London, 1803. M. Michel suggests Wilks’s Historical Sketches of the South of India (London, 1810) as having possibly served as a source of information for De Marlès. If some learned reader may discover any traces of Sivrouka antecedent to De Marlès, I shall be under great obligation to him if he will communicate the information to me.
[27] It will be readily understood that this vision represents Marie Antoinette with her three children and Madame Elizabeth.
[28] I have respected the orthography as well as the complete absence of punctuation of this bit of automatic writing, confining myself to marking by vertical bars its evident separation into verses of eight feet. It is written in the inclined and regular hand called that of Marie Antoinette (like that of [Fig. 40]), but with a pencil too pale to permit its reproduction.
[29] By this is meant the bringing or conveying of material objects into a closed space—the passage of one solid body through another.
[30] A small oil-portrait of my mother.