p. 160.—_Alley of trees._—The fine road made by the emperor Jehan-Guire from Agra to Lahore, planted with trees on each side. This road is 250 leagues in length. It has “little pyramids or turrets,” says _Fernier_, “erected every half league, to mark the ways, and frequent wells to afford drink to passengers, and to water the young trees.” Footnote 208: p. 162.—_That favourite tree of the luxurious bird that lights up the chambers of its nest with fire-flies._—The Baya, or Indian Gross-beak.—_Sir W. Jones._ Footnote 209: p. 162.—_On the clear cold waters of which floated multitudes of the beautiful red lotus._—“Here is a large pagoda by a tank, on the water of which float multitudes of the beautiful red lotus; the flower is larger than that of the white water-lily, and is the most lovely of the nymphæas I have seen.”—_Mrs. Graham_’s Journal of a Residence in India. Footnote 210: p. 163.—_Had fled hither from their Arab conquerors._—“On les voit persécutés par les Khalifes se retirer dans les montagnes du Kerman: plusieurs choisirent pour retraite la Tartarie et la Chine; d’autres s’arrêtè-rent sur les bords du Gange, à l’est de Delhi.”—_M. Anquetil_, Mémoires de l’Académie, tom. xxxi. p. 346. Footnote 211: p. 163.—_Like their own Fire in the Burning Field at Bakou._—The “Ager ardens” described by _Kæmpfer, Amœnitat. Exot._ Footnote 212: p. 164.—_The prey of strangers._—“Cashmere (says its historians) had its own princes 4000 years before its conquest by Akbar in 1585. Akbar would have found some difficulty to reduce this paradise of the Indies, situated as it is within such a fortress of mountains, but its monarch, Yusef-Khan, was basely betrayed by his Omrahs.”—_Pennant._ Footnote 213: p. 164.—_Fire-worshippers._—Voltaire tells us that in his Tragedy, “Les Guèbres,” he was generally supposed to have alluded to the Jansenists. I should not be surprised if this story of the Fire-worshippers were found capable of a similar doubleness of application. Footnote 214: p. 169.—_’Tis moonlight over_ OMAN’S _sea._ The Persian Gulf, sometimes so called, which separates the shores of Persia and Arabia. Footnote 215: p. 169.—_’Tis moonlight in_ HARMOZIA’S _walls._ The present Gombaroon, a town on the Persian side of the Gulf. Footnote 216: p. 169.—_Of trumpet and the clash of zel._ A Moorish instrument of music. Footnote 217: p. 170.—_The wind-tower on the_ EMIR’S _dome._ “At Gombaroon and other places in Persia, they have towers for the purpose of catching the wind, and cooling the houses.”—_Le Bruyn._ Footnote 218: p. 170.—_His race hath brought on_ IRAN’S _name._ “Iran is the true general name for the empire of Persia.”—_Asiat. Res._ Disc. 5. Footnote 219: p. 170.—_Engraven on his reeking sword._ “On the blades of their scimitars some verse from the Koran is usually inscribed.”—_Russel._ Footnote 220: