Birds of Paradise, which, at the nutmeg season, come in flights from the southern isles to India; and “the strength of the nutmeg,” says _Tavernier_, “so intoxicates them, that they fall dead drunk to the earth.” Footnote 74: p. 55.—_Build their high nests of budding cinnamon._ “That bird which liveth in Arabia, and buildeth its nest with cinnamon.”—_Brown_’s Vulgar Errors. Footnote 75: p. 55.—_Sleeping in light, like the green birds that dwell._ “The spirits of the martyrs will be lodged in the crops of green birds.” _Gibbon_, vol. ix. p. 421. Footnote 76: p. 55.—_More like the luxuries of that impious King._ Shedad, who made the delicious gardens of Irim, in imitation of Paradise, and was destroyed by lightning the first time he attempted to enter them. Footnote 77: p. 57.—_In its blue blossoms hum themselves to sleep._ “My Pandits assure me that the plant before us (the Nilica) is their Sephalica, thus named because the bees are supposed to sleep on its blossoms.”—_Sir W. Jones._ Footnote 78: p. 59.—_As they were captives to the King of Flowers._ “They deferred it till the King of Flowers should ascend his throne of enamelled foliage.”—_The Bahardanush._ Footnote 79: p. 60.—_But a light golden chain-work round her hair._ “One of the head-dresses of the Persian women is composed of a light golden chain-work, set with small pearls, with a thin gold plate pendant, about the bigness of a crown-piece, on which is impressed an Arabian prayer, and which hangs upon the cheek below the ear.”—_Hanway_’s Travels. Footnote 80: p. 60.—_Such as the maids of_ YEZD _and_ SHIRAS _wear._ “Certainly the women of Yezd are the handsomest women in Persia. The proverb is, that to live happy a man must have a wife of Yezd, eat the bread of Yezdecas, and drink the wine of Shiraz.”—_Tavernier._ Footnote 81: p. 61.—_Upon a musnud’s edge._ Musnuds are cushioned seats, usually reserved for persons of distinction. Footnote 82: p. 61.—_In the pathetic mode of_ ISFAHAN. The Persians, like the ancient Greeks, call their musical modes or Perdas by the names of different countries or cities, as the mode of Isfahan, the mode of Irak, &c. Footnote 83: p. 61.—_There’s a bower of roses by_ BENDEMEER’S _stream._ A river which flows near the ruins of Chilminar. Footnote 84: p. 64.—_The hills of crystal on the Caspian shore._ “To the north of us (on the coast of the Caspian, near Badku) was a mountain, which sparkled like diamonds, arising from the sea-glass and crystals with which it abounds.”—_Journey of the Russian Ambassador to Persia_, 1746. Footnote 85: p. 64.—_Of_ EDEN, _shake in the eternal breeze._ “To which will be added the sound of the bells, hanging on the trees, which will be put in motion by the wind proceeding from the throne of God, as often as the blessed wish for music.”—_Sale._ Footnote 86: