p. 171.—_Draw venom forth that drives men mad._ “There is a kind of Rhododendros about Trebizond, whose flowers the bee feeds upon, and the honey thence drives people mad.”—_Tournefort._ Footnote 221: p. 172.—_Upon the turban of a king._ “Their kings wear plumes of black herons’ feathers upon the right side, as a badge of sovereignty.”—_Hanway._ Footnote 222: p. 173.—_Springing in a desolate mountain._ “The Fountain of Youth, by a Mahometan tradition, is situated in some dark region of the East.”—_Richardson._ Footnote 223: p. 173.—_On summer-eves, through_ YEMEN’S _dales._ Arabia Felix. Footnote 224: p. 174.—_Who, lull’d in cool kiosk or bower._ “In the midst of the garden is the chiosk, that is, a large room, commonly beautified with a fine fountain in the midst of it. It is raised nine or ten steps, and inclosed with gilded lattices, round which vines, jessamines, and honeysuckles, make a sort of green wall; large trees are planted round this place, which is the scene of their greatest pleasures.”—_Lady M. W. Montague._ Footnote 225: p. 174.—_Before their mirrors count the time._ The women of the East are never without their looking-glasses. “In Barbary,” says _Shaw_, “they are so fond of their looking-glasses, which they hang upon their breasts, that they will not lay them aside, even when after the drudgery of the day they are obliged to go two or three miles with a pitcher or a goat’s skin to fetch water.”—_Travels._ In other parts of Asia they wear little looking-glasses on their thumbs. “Hence (and from the lotus being considered the emblem of beauty) is the meaning of the following mute intercourse of two lovers before their parents:— “‘He, with salute of deference due, A lotus to his forehead prest; She rais’d her mirror to his view, Then turn’d it inward to her breast.’” _Asiatic Miscellany_, vol. ii. Footnote 226: p. 174.—_Upon the emerald’s virgin blaze._ “They say that if a snake or serpent fix his eyes on the lustre of those stones (emeralds), he immediately becomes blind.”—_Ahmed ben Abdalaziz_ Treatise on Jewels. Footnote 227: p. 175.—_After the day-beam’s withering fire._ “At Gombaroon and the Isle of Ormus, it is sometimes so hot that the people are obliged to lie all day in the water.”—_Marco Polo._ Footnote 228: p. 176.—_Of_ ARARAT’S _tremendous peak._