[Page 200].—“The Place of Weeping.”—v. Wilford, Asiatic Researches, vol. 3. p. 340.
[Page 210].—“We had long since left this mountain behind.”—The voyages on the Nile are, under favourable circumstances, performed with considerable rapidity. “En cinq ou six jours,” says Maillet, “on pourroit aisément remonter de l’embouchure du Nil à ses cataractes, ou descendre des cataractes jusqu’à la mer.” The great uncertainty of the navigation is proved by what Belzoni tells us:—“Nous ne mîmes cette fois que deux jours et demi pour faire le trajet du Caire à Melawi, auquel, dans notre second voyage, nous avions employés dix-huit jours.”
[Page 212].—“Those mighty statues, that fling their shadows.”—“Elles out près de vingt mètres (61 pieds) d’élévation; et au lever du soleil, leurs ombres immenses s’étendent au loin sur la chaine Libyen.” Description générale de Thèbes, par Messrs. Jollois et Desvilliers.
[Ib.]—“Those cool alcoves.”—Paul Lucas.
[Page 219].—“Whose waters are half sweet, half bitter.”—Paul Lucas.
[Page 224].—“The Mountain of the Birds.”—There has been much controversy among the Arabian writers, with respect to the site of this mountain, for which see Quatremere, tom. 1. art. Amoun.
[Page 230].—“The hand of labour had succeeded,” &c.—The monks of Mount Sinai (Shaw says) have covered over near four acres of the naked rocks with fruitful gardens and orchards.
[Page 233].—“The image of a head.”—There was usually, Tertullian tells us, the image of Christ on the communion-cups.
[Ib.]—“Kissed her forehead.”—“We are rather disposed to infer,” says the present Bishop of Lincoln, in his very sensible work on Tertullian, “that, at the conclusion of all their meetings for the purpose of devotion, the early Christians were accustomed to give the kiss of peace, in token of the brotherly love subsisting between them.”
[Page 237].—“In the middle of the seven valleys.”—See Macrizy’s account of these valleys, given by Quatremere, tom. 1. p. 450.