[3] Birmahs [4] Arracan [5] Pompon. Mela, I. 3. Plin. I. 2. c. 67. [6] Joseph: Ant. Jud. I. 1. c. 5. [7] Justin, I. 1. [8] Berosus. [9] Diod. Sic. I. 2. c. 5. [10] Berosus. [11] Gons. Fern. I. 2. c. 3. Plin. I. 6. c. 31. [12] Plin. I. 4. c. 22. [13] Eratosth. ap. Strab. I. 1. p. 26. [14] Plin. I. 6. c. 29. [15] The miles here used are three to the league; but the league of the text is nearly equal to four English miles, and the assumed distance of these two ports 140 of our miles--E. [16] Strab. I. 17. p. 560. [17] Plin. I. 6. c. 29. [18] Diod. Sic. I. 4. c. 4. [19] Strab. I. 1. p. 26. [20] Kings, I. 9. Chron. II. 8. [21] Herodot. I. 4. [22] Arist. de Mirand. [23] Gonz. Fern. Ovied. I. 2. c. 3. [24] Plin. I. 9. c. 58. de Maribus Nili. [25] Joan. Leo Afric. I. 9. de Nilo.--Our author has got into a strange dilemma, by confounding crocodiles and serpents under one denomination. --E. [26] Plin. and Leo, ub. cit. [27] Plin. I. 2. c. 67. [28] Plin. I. 6. c. 31. This subject will be discussed in the _Fifth_ Part of our work; being much too extensive to admit of elucidation in a note.--E. [29] Hasty readers will have the justice to give the honour of this story to Galvano.--E. [30] This story will be found hereafter very differently related by Cada Mosto himself, but with a sufficient spice of the marvellous.--E. [31] The Honey-guide, or Cuculus Indicator, will be noticed more particularly in the Travels through the Colony of the Cape.--E. [32] The Philosophers of the _nineteenth_ century have _fortunately_ rediscovered the _Mermaid_ in the north of Scotland! Hitherto, wonderful things used to be confined to barbarous regions and ignorant ages.--E. [33] Arist. de Mirand. Strabo, I. 2. p. 68. [34] Plin. I. 6. c. 29. [35] Strabo, I. 17. p. 560, 561. [36] Strab. I. 17. p. 549. [37] Plin. I. 6. c. 23. [38] Id. I. 12. c. 18. [39] Id. I. 2. c. 67. [40] Ziphilin. in vit. Traj. [41] Ramusio, V. f. 372. p. 2 [42] Strabo, I. 11. [43] Plin. I. 6. c. 11. [44] Newfoundland? [45] Jidda. [46] Leo Afric. Ramus. v. 1. f. 373. SECTION II. _Summary of Portuguese Discoveries, from the Commencement of the Fifteenth Century, to the Discovery of America by Columbus_[1].