circulation of air, extremely refreshing in those sultry climates." Richardson.

"The swings are adorned with festoons. This pastime is accompanied with the music of voices and of instruments, hired by the masters of the swings." - Thevenot.

Note 321, p. 205.-Among the tents that line the way.

"At the keeping of the Feast of Roses we beheld an infinite number of tents pitched, with such a crowd of men, women, boys, and girls, with music, dances," etc., etc. - Herbert.

Note 322, p. 205.- - An answer in song to the kiss of each wave. "An old commentator of the Chou-King says, the ancients having remarked that a current of water made some of the stones near its banks send forth a sound, they detached some of them, and being charmed with the delightful sound they emitted, constructed King or musical instruments of them." — Grosier.

This miraculous quality has been attributed also to the shore of Attica. "Hujus littus, ait Capella, concentum musicum illisis terræ undis reddere, quod propter tantam eruditionis vim puto dictum." - Ludov. Vives in Augustin. de Civitat. Dei, lib. xviii. c. 8. Note 323, p. 206. — So felt the magnificent Son of Acbar. Jehan-Guire was the son of the Great Acbar.

Note 324, p. 207. — Yet playful as Peris just loos'd from their cages.

In the wars of the Dives with the Peris, whenever the former took the latter prisoners, "they shut them up in iron cages, and hung them on the highest trees. Here they were visited by their companions, who brought them the choicest odors.” — Richardson.

Note 325, p. 207. — Of the flowers of this planet — though treasures were there.

In the Malay language the same word signifies women and flowers.

Note 326, p. 207. He saw that City of Delight.

The capital of Shadukiam. See note 195, p. 203.

Note 327, p. 208. — He sits, with flow'rets fetter'd round.

See the representation of the Eastern Cupid, pinioned closely round with wreaths of flowers in Picart's Cérémonies Religieuses.

Note 328, p. 208. — Lose all their glory when he flies.

"Among the birds of Tonquin is a species of goldfinch, which sings so melodiously that it is called the Celestial Bird. Its wings, when it is perched, appear variegated with beautiful colors, but when it flies they lose all their splendor." — Grosier.

Note 329, p. 209. — Whose pinion knows no resting-place.

"As these birds on the Bosphorus are never known to rest, they are called by the French 'les âmes damnées.'"

Note 330, p. 209. — If there his darling rose is not.

Dalloway.

"You may place a hundred handfuls of fragrant herbs and flowers before the nightingale, yet he wishes not, in his constant heart, for more than the sweet breath of his beloved rose." Jami.

Note 331, p. 210.- From the great Mantra, which around.

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'He is said to have found the great Mantra, spell or talisman, through which he ruled over the elements and spirits of all denominations." Wilford.

"The gold jewels of Jinnie, which are called by the Arabs El Herrez, from the supposed charm they contain." - Jackson.

Note 333, p. 210. To keep him from the Siltim's harm.

"A demon, supposed to haunt woods, etc., in a human shape." - Richardson.

Note 334, p. 210. — Her Selim's smile to Nourmahal.

The name of Jehan-Guire before his accession to the throne.

Note 335, p. 211. Anemones and Seas of Gold.

“Hemasagara, or the Sea of Gold, with flowers of the brightest gold color." Sir W. Jones.

Note 336, p. 211. — Their buds on CAMADEVA's quiver.

"This tree (the Nagacesara) is one of the most delightful on earth, and the delicious odor of its blossoms justly gives them a place in the quiver of Camadeva, or the God of Love." — Id.

Note 337, p. 212.

Is call'd the Mistress of the Night.

"The Malayans style the tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) Sandal Malam, or the Mistress of the Night." - Pennant.

Note 338, p. 212. - That wander through ZAMARA's shades.

The people of the Batta country in Sumatra (of which Zamara is one of the ancient names), "when not engaged in war, lead an idle, inactive life, passing the day in playing on a kind of flute, crowned with garlands of flowers, among which the globe-amaranthus, a native of the country, mostly prevails.' "- Marsden.

Note 339, p. 212. - From the divine Amrita tree.

"The largest and richest sort (of the Jambu, or rose-apple) is called Amrita, or immortal, and the mythologists of Tibet apply the same word to a celestial tree, bearing ambrosial fruit." — Sir W. Jones.

Note 340, p. 212. - Down to the basil tuft, that waves.

Sweet basil, called Rayhan in Persia, and generally found in churchyards.

"The women in Egypt go, at least two days in the week, to pray and weep at the sepulchres of the dead; and the custom then is to throw upon the tombs a sort of herb, which the Arabs call rihan, and which is our sweet basil." - Maillet, Lett. 10.

Note 341, p. 212. To scent the desert and the dead.

"In the Great Desert are found many stalks of lavender and rosemary." Asiatic Researches.

Note 342, p. 213. — That blooms on a leafless bough.

"The almond-tree, with white flowers, blossoms on the bare branches."- Hasselquist.

Note 343, p. 213. — Inhabit the mountain-herb, that dyes.

An herb on Mount Libanus, which is said to communicate a yellow golden hue to the teeth of the goats and other animals that graze upon it.

Niebuhr thinks this may be the herb which the Eastern alchymists look to as a means of making gold. "Most of those alchymical enthusiasts think themselves sure of success, if they could but find out the herb which gilds the teeth and gives a yellow color to the flesh of the sheep that eat it. Even the oil of this plant must be of a golden color. It is called Haschischat ed dab.” Father Jerom Dandini, however, asserts that the teeth of the goats at Mount Libanus are of a silver color; and adds, "This confirms to me that which I observed in Candia: to wit, that the animals that live on Mount Ida eat a certain herb which renders

their teeth of a golden color; which, according to my judgment, cannot otherwise proceed than from the mines which are under ground." -Dandini's Voyage to Mount Libanus.

Note 341, p. 214. ·Of AZAB blew, was full of scents. -The myrrh country.

Note 345, p. 214.

Where Love himself, of old, lay sleeping. "This idea (of deities living in shells) was not unknown to the Greeks, who represent the young Nerites, one of the Cupids, as living in shells on the shores of the Red Sea." -Wilford.

Note 346, p. 215. - From CпINDARA's warbling fount I come. "A fabulous fountain, where instruments are said to be constantly playing." - Richardson.

Note 347, p. 215. - The cinnamon-seed from grove to grove. "The Pompadour pigeon is the species, which, by carrying the fruit of the cinnamon to different places, is a great disseminator of this valuable tree." (See Brown's Illustr. Tab. 19.)

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Note 348, p. 215. — The past, the present, and future of pleasure..

"Whenever our pleasure arises from a succession of sounds, it is a perception of a complicated nature, made up of a sensation of the present sound or note, and an idea or remembrance of the foregoing, while their mixture and concurrence produce such a mysterious delight, as neither could have produced alone. And it is often heightened by an anticipation of the succeeding notes. Thus Sense, Memory, and Imagination are conjunctively employed.”. Gerrard on Taste.

This is exactly the Epicurean theory of Pleasure, as explained by Cicero: "Quocirca corpus gaudere tamdiu, dum præsentem sentiat voluptatem: animum et præsentem percipere pariter cum corpore, et prospicere venientem, nec præteritam præterfluere sinere."

Madame de Staël accounts upon the same principle for the gratification we derive from rhyme: - "Elle est l'image de l'espérance et du souvenir. Un son nous fait désirer celui qui doit lui répondre, et quand le second retentit il nous rappelle celui qui vient de nous échapper."

Note 349, p. 216.

Whose glimpses are again withdrawn.

"The Persians have two mornings, the Soobhi Kazim and the Soobhi Sadig, the false and the real daybreak. They account for

this phenomenon in a most whimsical manner. They say that as the sun rises from behind the Kohi Qaf (Mount Caucasus), it passes a hole perforated through that mountain, and that darting its rays through it, it is the cause of the Soobhi Kazim, or this temporary appearance of daybreak. As it ascends, the earth is again veiled in darkness, until the sun rises above the mountain and brings with it the Soobhi Sadig, or real morning.”—Scott Waring. He thinks Milton may allude to this, when he says:

"Ere the blabbing Eastern scout,

The nice morn, on the Indian steep
From her cabin'd loop-hole peep."

Note 350, p. 217.

In his magnificent Shalimar.

"In the centre of the plain, as it approaches the Lake, one of the Delhi Emperors, I believe Shah Jehan, constructed a spacious garden called the Shalimar, which is abundantly stored with fruittrees and flowering shrubs. Some of the rivulets which intersect the plain are led into a canal at the back of the garden, and flowing through its centre, or occasionally thrown into a variety of water-works, compose the chief beauty of the Shalimar. To decorate this spot, the Mogul princes of India have displayed an equal magnificence and taste; especially Jehan Gheer, who, with the enchanting Noor Mahl, made Kashmire his usual residence during the summer months. On arches thrown over the canal are erected, at equal distances, four or five suites of apartments, each consisting of a saloon, with four rooms at the angles, where the followers of the court attend, and the servants prepare sherbets, coffee, and the hookah. The frame of the doors of the principal saloon is composed of pieces of a stone of a black color, streaked with yellow lines, and of a closer grain and higher polish than porphyry. They were taken, it is said, from a Hindoo temple, by one of the Mogul princes, and are esteemed of great value." — Forster.

Note 351, p. 217. — Of beauty from its founts and streams.

"The waters of Cachemir are the most renowned from its being supposed that the Cachemirians are indebted for their beauty to them." Ali Yezdi.

Note 352, p. 217. — Singing in gardens of the South.

"From him I received the following little Gazzel, or Love Song, the notes of which he committed to paper from the voice of one of those singing girls of Cashmere, who wander from that delightful valley over the various parts of India." - Persian Miscellanies.