The Amoo, which rises in the Belur Tag, or Dark Mountains, and running nearly from east to west, splits into two branches; one of which falls into the Caspian sea, and the other into Aral Nahr, or the Lake of Eagles. Footnote 47: p. 24.—_The bulbul utters, ere her soul depart._—The nightingale. Footnote 48: p. 34.—_In holy_ KOOM, _or_ MECCA’S _dim arcades._ The cities of Com (or Koom) and Cashan are full of mosques, mausoleums, and sepulchres of the descendants of Ali, the Saints of Persia.—_Chardin._ Footnote 49: p. 34.—_Stood vases, fill’d with_ KISHMEE’S _golden wine._ An island in the Persian Gulf, celebrated for its white wine. Footnote 50: p. 34.—_Like_ ZEMZEM’S _Spring of Holiness, had power._ The miraculous well at Mecca; so called, says Sale, from the murmuring of its waters. Footnote 51: p. 35.—_Whom_ INDIA _serves, the monkey deity._ The God Hannaman.—“Apes are in many parts of India highly venerated, out of respect to the God Hannaman, a deity partaking of the form of that race.”—_Pennant_’s Hindoostan. See a curious account, in _Stephen_’s _Persia_, of a solemn embassy from some part of the Indies to Goa, when the Portuguese were there, offering vast treasures for the recovery of a monkey’s tooth, which they held in great veneration, and which had been taken away upon the conquest of the kingdom of Jafanapatan. Footnote 52: p. 35.—_To bend in worship_, LUCIFER _was right._ This resolution of Eblis not to acknowledge the new creature, man, was, according to Mahometan tradition, thus adopted:—“The earth (which God had selected for the materials of his work) was carried into Arabia to a place between Mecca and Tayef, where, being first kneaded by the angels, it was afterwards fashioned by God himself into a human form, and left to dry for the space of forty days, or, as others say, as many years; the angels, in the mean time, often visiting it, and Eblis (then one of the angels nearest to God’s presence, afterwards the devil) among the rest; but he, not contented with looking at it, kicked it with his foot till it rung; and knowing God designed that creature to be his superior, took a secret resolution never to acknowledge him as such.”—_Sale_ on the Koran. Footnote 53: p. 36.—_From dead men’s marrow guides them best at night._ A kind of lantern formerly used by robbers, called the Hand of Glory, the candle for which was made of the fat of a dead malefactor. This, however, was rather a western than an eastern superstition. Footnote 54: p. 37.—_In that best marble of which Gods are made._ The material of which images of Gaudma (the Birman Deity) are made, is held sacred. “Birmans may not purchase the marble in mass, but are suffered, and indeed encouraged, to buy figures of the Deity ready made.”—_Symes_’s Ava, vol. ii. p. 376. Footnote 55: p. 41.—_Of Kerzrah flowers, came fill’d with pestilence._