p. 324.—_Roofed with flowers._—“On a standing roof of wood is laid a covering of fine earth, which shelters the building from the great quantity of snow that falls in the winter season. This fence communicates an equal warmth in winter, as a refreshing coolness in the summer season, when the tops of the houses, which are planted with a variety of flowers, exhibit at a distance the spacious view of a beautifully chequered parterre.”—_Forster._ Footnote 384: p. 324.—_The triple-coloured tortoise-shell of Pegu._—“Two hundred slaves there are, who have no other office than to hunt the woods and marshes for triple-coloured tortoises for the King’s Vivary. Of the shells of these also lanterns are made.”—_Vincent le Blanc_’s Travels. Footnote 385: p. 325.—_Like the meteors of the north as they are seen by those hunters._—For a description of the Aurora Borealis as it appears to these hunters, vide _Encyclopædia_. Footnote 386: p. 325.—_Odoriferous wind._—This wind, which is to blow from Syria Damascena, is, according to the Mahometans, one of the signs of the Last Day’s approach. Another of the signs is, “Great distress in the world, so that a man when he passes by another’s grave shall say, ‘Would to God I were in his place!’”—_Sale_’s Preliminary Discourse. Footnote 387: p. 328.—_As precious as the Cerulean Throne of Coolburga._—“On Mahommed Shaw’s return to Koolburga (the capital of Dekkan), he made a great festival, and mounted this throne with much pomp and magnificence, calling it Firozeh, or Cerulean. I have heard some old persons, who saw the throne Firozeh in the reign of Sultan Mamood Bhamenee, describe it. They say that it was in length nine feet, and three in breadth; made of ebony, covered with plates of pure gold, and set with precious stones of immense value. Every prince of the house of Bhamenee, who possessed this throne, made a point of adding to it some rich stones; so that when in the reign of Sultan Mamood it was taken to pieces, to remove some of the jewels to be set in vases and cups, the jewellers valued it at one corore of oons (nearly four millions sterling). I learned also that it was called Firozeh from being partly enamelled of a sky-blue colour, which was in time totally concealed by the number of jewels.”—_Ferishta._ THE END. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LONDON: PRINTED BY RICHARD CLAY, BREAD STREET HILL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS MOORE. THE ONLY COMPLETE EDITIONS.