For a particular description and plate of the Banyan-tree, see _Cordiner_’s Ceylon. Footnote 168: p. 133.—_Thy Monarchs and their thousand Thrones._ “With this immense treasure Mamood returned to Ghizni, and in the year 400 prepared a magnificent festival, where he displayed to the people his wealth in golden thrones and in other ornaments, in a great plain without the city of Ghizni.”—_Ferishta._ Footnote 169: p. 133.—_’Tis He of Gazna—fierce in wrath._ “Mahmood of Gazna, or Ghizni, who conquered India in the beginning of the 11th century.”—See his History in _Dow_ and _Sir J. Malcolm_. Footnote 170: p. 133.—_Of many a young and lov’d Sultana._ “It is reported that the hunting equipage of the Sultan Mahmood was so magnificent, that he kept 400 greyhounds and bloodhounds, each of which wore a collar set with jewels, and a covering edged with gold and pearls.”—_Universal History_, vol. iii. Footnote 171: p. 134.—_For Liberty shed, so holy is._ Objections may be made to my use of the word Liberty in this, and more especially in the story that follows it, as totally inapplicable to any state of things that has ever existed in the East; but though I cannot, of course, mean to employ it in that enlarged and noble sense which is so well understood at the present day, and, I grieve to say, so little acted upon, yet it is no disparagement to the word to apply it to that national independence, that freedom from the interference and dictation of foreigners, without which, indeed, no liberty of any kind can exist; and for which both Hindoos and Persians fought against their Mussulman invaders with, in many cases, a bravery that deserved much better success. Footnote 172: p. 136.—_Now among_ AFRIC’S _lunar Mountains._ “The Mountains of the Moon, or the Montes Lunæ of antiquity, at the foot of which the Nile is supposed to rise.”—_Bruce._ “Sometimes called,” says _Jackson_, “Jibbel Kumrie, or the white or lunar-coloured mountains; so a white horse is called by the Arabians a moon-coloured horse.” Footnote 173: p. 136.—_And hail the new-born Giant’s smile._ “The Nile, which the Abyssinians know by the names of Abey and Alawy, or the Giant.”—_Asiat. Research._ vol. i. p. 387. Footnote 174: p. 136.—_Her grots, and sepulchres of Kings._ See Perry’s View of the Levant for an account of the sepulchres in Upper Thebes, and the numberless grots, covered all over with hieroglyphics in the mountains of Upper Egypt. Footnote 175: p. 136.—_In warm_ ROSETTA’S _vale—now loves._ “The orchards of Rosetta are filled with turtle-doves.”—_Sonnini._ Footnote 176: p. 136.—_The azure calm of_ MŒRIS’ _Lake._ Savary mentions the pelicans upon Lake Mœris. Footnote 177: p. 137.—_Warns them to their silken beds._ “The superb date-tree, whose head languidly reclines, like that of a handsome woman overcome with sleep.”—_Dafard el Hadad._ Footnote 178: