p. 137.—_Some purple-wing’d Sultana sitting._ “That beautiful bird, with plumage of the finest shining blue, with purple beak and legs, the natural and living ornament of the temples and palaces of the Greeks and Romans, which, from the stateliness of its port, as well as the brilliancy of its colours, has obtained the title of Sultana.”—_Sonnini._ Footnote 179: p. 138.—_Only the fierce hyæna stalks._ Jackson, speaking of the plague that occurred in West Barbary, when he was there, says, “The birds of the air fled away from the abodes of men. The hyænas, on the contrary, visited the cemeteries,” &c. Footnote 180: p. 138.—_Throughout the city’s desolate walks._ “Gondar was full of hyænas from the time it turned dark till the dawn of day, seeking the different pieces of slaughtered carcasses, which this cruel and unclean people expose in the streets without burial, and who firmly believe that these animals are Falashta from the neighbouring mountains, transformed by magic, and come down to eat human flesh in the dark in safety.”—_Bruce._ Footnote 181: p. 138.—_The glaring of those large blue eyes._—Bruce. Footnote 182: p. 140.—_But see—who yonder comes by stealth._ This circumstance has been often introduced into poetry;—by Vincentius Fabricius, by Darwin, and lately, with very powerful effect, by Mr. Wilson. Footnote 183: p. 142.—_Who sings at the last his own death-lay._ “In the East, they suppose the Phœnix to have fifty orifices in his bill, which are continued to his tail; and that, after living one thousand years, he builds himself a funeral pile, sings a melodious air of different harmonies through his fifty organ pipes, flaps his wings with a velocity which sets fire to the wood, and consumes himself.”—_Richardson._ Footnote 184: p. 144.—_Their first sweet draught of glory take._ “On the shores of a quadrangular lake stand a thousand goblets, made of stars, out of which souls predestined to enjoy felicity drink the crystal wave.”—From _Châteaubriand_’s Description of the Mahometan Paradise, in his _Beauties of Christianity_. Footnote 185: p. 145.—_Now, upon_ SYRIA’S _land of roses._ Richardson thinks that Syria had its name from Suri, a beautiful and delicate species of rose, for which that country has been always famous;—hence, Suristan, the Land of Roses. Footnote 186: p. 145.—_Gay lizards, glittering on the walls._ “The number of lizards I saw one day in the great court of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec amounted to many thousands; the ground, the walls, and stones of the ruined buildings, were covered with them.”—_Bruce._ Footnote 187: p. 146.—_Of shepherd’s ancient reed._ “The Syrinx, or Pan’s pipe, is still a pastoral instrument in Syria.”—_Russel._ Footnote 188: p. 146.—_Of the wild bees of_ PALESTINE.