[116] Edrisi compiled, under the instruction of Roger, King of Sicily, Italy, Lombardy, and Calabria, an exhaustive geographical treatise comprising information derived from numerous preceding works, principally Arabic, and from the testimony of all the geographers of the day. _Vide_ the Translation into French by M. Amédée Jaubert, 2 vols. 4to, Paris, 1836, included in the _Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires publié par la Société de Géographie_. "Ce pays touch celui de Wac Wac où sont deux villes misérables et mal peuplées à cause de la rareté des subsistances et du peu de ressource en tout genre; l'une se nomme Derou et l'autre Nebhena; dans son voisinage est un grand bourg nommé Da'rgha. Les naturels sont noirs, de figure hideuse, de complexion difformé; leur langage est une espèce de sifflement. Ils sont absolument nus et sont peu visités (par les étrangers). Ils vivent de poissons, de coquillages, et de tortues. Ils sont (comme il vient d'être dit) voisins de l'ile de Wac Wac dont nous reparlerons, s'il plait à Dieu. Chacun de ces pays et de ces iles est situé sur un grand golfe, on n'y trouve ni or, ni commerce, ni navire, ni bêtes de somme."--_El Edrisi_, vol. i. p. 79. [117] The _Agave Americane_, which substance has as many uses among the Mexicans as the bamboo (the iron of China) among the Chinese, or the camel among nomads. [118] _The Thousand and One Nights_, vol. iii. chap. xxv. p. 480, Note 32, E. W. Lane, London, 1877. A similar account is given by Quazvini. See _Scriptorum Arabum de Rebus Indicis_, J. Gildemeister, Bonn, 1838. [119] The diggings are seventy to one hundred and fifty miles from Port Darwin. There is gold on Victoria River. Jacks, in his report to the Queensland Government, published March or April of 1880, reports no paying gold in Yorke's peninsula. One hundred miles from Port Darwin and twenty-six miles from the Adelaide River a new rush occurred in July 1880: nuggets from 70 to 80 oz. of common occurrence; one found weighed 187 oz. [120] _Scientific American_, Aug. 14, 1880. [121] E. J. Elliott, "The Age of Cave Dwellers in America," _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, vol. xv. p. 488. [122] _Scientific American_, Jan. 24, 1880. [123] _Macmillan's Magazine_, quoted in _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, No. 82. [124] _Œuvres_, I. 7, pp. 197, 198. [125] _Two Voyages to New England_, p. 124; London, 1673. [126] Robert Knox, _The Races of Men_; London, 1850. [127] _Principles of Geology_, chap. xii. [128] _Atlantis_, by Ignatius Donelly; New York, 1882. [129] It is given in great detail by Mr. Donelly; want of space forbids my including it. [130] I use the text of the edition of Diodorus Siculus of L. Rhodomanus, Amsterdam, 1746. [131] "Professor Virchow considers this an example how certain artistical or technical forms are developed simultaneously, without any connection or relation between the artists or craftsmen."--Preface to _Ilios_, Schliemann. Murray, 1880.