[444] John, XV., 22.—T.
[445] Luke, XI., 46.—T.
[446] Cf. Luke, XIII., 1: "And there were present at that very time some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices." An earlier edition gives Herodotus! I have little doubt that the misquotation was a slip on the part of the author's pen.—T.
[447] Epilepsy.—T.
[448] Cf. Vol. I., pp. XXI.-XXIV.: The Author's Preface.—T.
[449] Australia was explored by Cook in 1770-1777. The first settlement was at Port Jackson in 1788.—T.
[450] Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) visited the Antarctic Ocean in the Coquille, in 1839. He was killed in the burning of a railway train between Paris and Versailles on the 8th of May 1842.—T.
[451] Ferdinand Vicomte de Lesseps (1805-1894) made his first investigation of the Isthmus of Suez in 1849. The Canal was thrown open for navigation in 1869. Work on the Panama Canal began in 1881.—T.
[452] Jean François Champollion (1791-1831) discovered the key to the Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions in 1822, with the aid of the famous Rosetta Stone.—T.
[453] M. Charles Lenormant, Champollion's learned travelling-companion, has preserved the grammar of the obelisks which M. Ampère has gone to study to-day on the ruins of Thebes and Memphis.—Author's Note.