[67] "That bird which liveth in Arabia, and buildeth its nest with cinnamon."—Brown's Vulgar Errors.
[68] "The spirits of the martyrs will be lodged in the crops of green birds."—Gibbon, vol. ix. p. 421.
[69] Shedad, who made the delicious gardens of Irim, in imitation of Paradise, and was destroyed by lightning the first time he attempted to enter them.
[70] "My Pandits assure me that the plant before us (the Nilica) is their Sephalica, thus named because the bees are supposed to sleep on its blossoms."—Sir W. Jones.
[71] They deterred it till the King of Flowers should ascend his throne of enamelled foliage."—The Bahardanush".
[72] "One of the head-dresses of the Persian women is composed of a light golden chain-work, set with small pearls, with a thin gold plate pendant, about the bigness of a crown-piece, on which is impressed an Arabian prayer, and which hangs upon the cheek below the ear."—Hanway's Travels.
[73] "Certainly the women of Yezd are the handsomest women in Persia. The proverb is, that to live happy a man must have a wife of Yezd, eat the bread of Yezdecas, and drink the wine of Shiraz."—Tavernier.
[74] Musnuds are cushioned seats, usually reserved for persons of distinction.
[75] The Persians, like the ancient Greeks call their musical modes or Perdas by the names of different countries or cities, as the mode of Isfahan, the mode of Irak, etc.
[76] A river which flows near the ruins of Chilminar.