[2] The Author possesses a picture of the source of the Ganges, painted on panel, on the spot, by the late W. Simpson. Fakirs, at least in his time, were wont, when the end of life drew near, to ascend the glacier, and terminate the illusions of existence on the snow-mountains above it. Simpson saw a Fakir climbing up a snow-slope for this purpose. Now, as well as one can judge from this panel, the lower end of the glacier from which the infant Ganges is seen flowing would be about as broad as Hiuen-Tsiang states the source of the river to be.
[3] Beal’s translation of Si-yu-ki vol. i., p. 70.
[4] J. Talboy Wheeler, “History of India,” London, 1874, vol. iii, p. 261.
[5] W. H. Johnson, who was the first European to visit Khotan for 260 years, heard of these cities buried in the sand (1865).
[6] For recent travels in Eastern Turkestan, see Prjevalsky, N. From Kulja across the Thian Shan to Lob-Nor, tr. E. D. Morgan, 1879.
[7] A measure which varies in different provinces. It is the Chinese foot-measure, always shorter than ours.
[8] The Latin text is printed with a translation by Brownlow, by the Palestine Pilgrims Text Society. 1892.
[9] Memoirs of the Emperor Johangueir, by himself. Tr. from Persian by D. Price. Oriental Translation Fund. 1829. pp. 96–104.
[10] Chaucer, Man of Lawe’s Tale. Part I., st. i, l. 4. The derivation of Satin is obvious.
[11] Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. iv. p. 405.