[1]. Narrative of a Journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852. By Lieut. Van de Velde. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1854.
[2]. The old name for Corinth. The famous rock of the Acropolis is 1800 feet high, and is a most prominent object from Athens, and all the open country to the east.
[3]. The landscape here described is well known to travellers, being on the road between Corinth and Mycenæ. The Apesantian mount, with its broad, flat, tabular summit, overhangs Nemea, where three magnificent Corinthian pillars are all that remain to proclaim, amid the solitude, the once splendid worship of Nemean Jove. The defile of Tretus is described by Pausanias (ii. 15), and by Colonel Mure in his Travels.
[4]. The temple of Juno, near Mycenæ, of which the remains have lately been discovered.
[5]. The well-known ruins of Tiryns, at the head of the Argolic gulf, between Nauplia and Argos. The “galleries” make a fine figure in illustrated tours; but Tiryns, situated on a low elliptical hillock, will disappoint the traveller. Not so Mycenæ, of which the remains are truly sublime, and well worthy to be associated for ever with the memory of the “king of men.”
[6]. The old name of Ægina, whose maritime strength and commercial dignity are celebrated by Pindar. (Ol. viii.)
[7]. Naxos.
[8]. The climate of Rhodes is delightful. The Atabyrian mount is mentioned by Pindar, in the famous ode to Diagoras (ol. vii.), αλλ ὦ Ζεῦ πάτερ νὡτοισιν Αταβυριου. κ. τ. λ.
[9]. On the subject of Lycia, and the topography of this part of the poem, it is perhaps superfluous to refer our readers to Sir Charles Fellowes’ works, and the travels, in the same district, of Professor Edward Forbes, now of this city.
[10]. A warlike people in Lycia mentioned by Homer—Σολύμοισι κυδαλἰμοισι.