"--_Sir W. Jones_.
[304] Sweet Basil, called Rayhan in Persia, and generally found in
churchyards.
[305] "In the Great Desert are found many stalks of lavender and
rosemary."--_Asiat. Res_.
[306] "The almond-tree, with white flowers, blossoms on the bare
branches."--_Hasselquist_.
[307] An herb on Mount Libanus, which is said to communicate a yellow
golden hue to the teeth of the goat and other animals that graze upon it.
[308] The myrrh country.
[309] "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_.
[310] "A fabulous fountain, where instruments are said to be constantly
playing."--_Richardson_.
[311] "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.
[312] "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.
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