p. 130.—_With its plane-tree Isle reflected clear._ “Numerous small islands emerge from the Lake of Cashmere. One is called Char Chenaur, from the plane-trees upon it.”—_Foster._ Footnote 160: p. 130.—_And the golden floods that thitherward stray._ “The Altan Kol or Golden River of Tibet, which runs into the Lakes of Sing-su-hay, has abundance of gold in its sands, which employs the inhabitants all the summer in gathering it.”—_Description of Tibet in Pinkerton._ Footnote 161: p. 131.—_Blooms nowhere but in Paradise._ “The Brahmins of this province insist that the blue campac flowers only in Paradise.”—_Sir W. Jones._ It appears, however, from a curious letter of the sultan of Menangcabow, given by Marsden, that one place on earth may lay claim to the possession of it. “This is the Sultan, who keeps the flower champaka that is blue, and to be found in no other country but his, being yellow elsewhere.”—_Marsden_’s Sumatra. Footnote 162: p. 131.—_Flung at night from angel hands._ “The Mahometans suppose that falling stars are the firebrands wherewith the good angels drive away the bad, when they approach too near the empyrean or verge of the heavens.”—_Fryer._ Footnote 163: p. 132.—_Beneath the pillars of_ CHILMINAR. The Forty Pillars; so the Persians call the ruins of Persepolis. It is imagined by them that this palace and the edifices at Balbec were built by Genii, for the purpose of hiding in their subterraneous caverns immense treasures, which still remain there.—See _D’Herbelot_ and _Volney._ Footnote 164: p. 132.—_To the south of sun-bright Araby._—The Isles of Panchaia. _Diodorus_ mentions the Isle of Panchaia, to the south of Arabia Felix, where there was a temple of Jupiter. This island, or rather cluster of isles, has disappeared, “sunk (says _Grandpré_) in the abyss made by the fire beneath their foundations.”—_Voyage to the Indian Ocean._ Footnote 165: p. 132.—_The jewell’d cup of their King Jamshid._ “The cup of Jamshid, discovered, they say, when digging for the foundations of Persepolis.”—_Richardson._ Footnote 166: p. 132.—_O’er coral rocks, and amber beds._ “It is not like the Sea of India, whose bottom is rich with pearls and ambergris, whose mountains of the coast are stored with gold and precious stones, whose gulfs breed creatures that yield ivory, and among the plants of whose shores are ebony, red wood, and the wood of Hairzan, aloes, camphor, cloves, sandal-wood, and all other spices and aromatics: where parrots and peacocks are birds of the forest, and musk and civet are collected upon the lands.”—_Travels of Two Mohammedans._ Footnote 167: p. 133.—_Thy Pagods and thy pillar’d shades._ ... “in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree, _a pillar’d shade_, High over-arch’d, and echoing walks between.”—MILTON.