Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.Bruce, James
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Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.
Bruce, James
Natural history -- Egypt; Natural history -- Ethiopia; Nile River; Plants -- Egypt; Plants -- Ethiopia; Scientific expeditions -- Egypt
[42] See Supplement to Chambers’s Dict.
[43] Vid. Buffon Hist. rhinoceros, p. 225. Edwards, p. 25. and 26.
[44] Chardin, tom. iii. p. 45.
[45] Tran. Phlisoph. No. 470.
[46] Boch. vol. I. cap. xxxiii.
[47] Buffon vol. IX. 4to.
[48] Clem. Alexan. lib. ii. Pædagog. cap. 10.
[49] Kemp. p. 411. and 412.
[50] Herod. Melp. sect. 192.
[51] Theoph. apud Elian. Hist. Anim. lib. xv. cap. 26.
[52] Arist. de Mareb. Egypt. lib. vi.
[53] Isaiah, chap. xvi. ver. 17.
[54] Sparman, vol. II. p. 186.
[55] Supplement to Tom. iii. p. 148.
[56] Vol. I. p. 248.
[57] Sparman’s voyage to the Cape, vol. ii. p. 185.
[58] P. 185.
[59] Sparman, vol. II. p. 185.
[60] Clem. 1. part 1.
[61] Vid. Epist J. Caii, Angli ad Gesnerum.
[62] Meninx Ins.
[63] Psalm civ. ver. 18.
[64] Prov. chap. xxx. ver. 24.
[65] Prov. chap. xxx. ver. 26.
[66] Chap. iii. ver. 26.
[67] Chap. xlix. ver. 15.
[68] Chap. iv. ver. 10.
[69] Hieroglyph. lib. i. cap. ix.
[70] Plut. In quest. Rom. quest. 93.
[71] Lib. xvii.
[72] Chil. 12. hist. 439.
[73] In Valentin. cap. 10.
[74] Lib. i. Contra Celsum.
[75] In hexaem homil. 8.
[76] In hexaem, page 27.
[77] Deut. chap. xiv. ver. 13.
[78] Exod. chap. xix. ver. 4.
[79] Buffon, Plan. Enlum. 389.
[80] Vide Plutarch de Iside.
[81] Sparman’s voyage, vol. ii. p. 192.
[82] Buffon, plan. enlum. 626.
[83] Buffon, plan. enlum. 326.
[84] Vol. i. book 2. p. 388.
[85] Chap. xli. ver. 26.
[86] Prosp. Alpin. lib. iv. cap. 4.
[87] Jerem. chap. viii. ver. 17.
[88] Psalm ix. ver. 13.
[89] It is to be observed here, it is the Greek text that calls it
Basilisc. The Hebrew for the most part calls it Tsepha, which are a
species of serpents real and known. Our English translation, very
improperly, renders it Cockatrice; a fabulous animal, that never did
exist. I shall only further observe, that the basilisc, in scripture,
would seem to be a snake, not a viper, as there are frequent mention
made of their eggs, as in Isaiah, chap. lix. ver. 5. whereas, it is
known to be the characteristic of the viper to bring forth living young.
[90] Elian. Hist. lib. i. cap. 25. Horia. hieroglyph. lib. ii. chap. 65.
[91] Lucan. lib. ix.
[92] Mart. lib. xii. and lxvii. epig.
[93] Juv. sat. xi.
[94] Vell. Pat. lib. ii. cap. 56.
[95] See Proverbs, chap. xxxi. verse 10. But in Job, where all the
variety of precious stones are mentioned, the translator is forced,
as it were unwillingly, to render Peninim pearls, as he ought indeed
to have done in many other places where it occurs. Job, chap. xxviii.
verse 18.
[96] Bochart reads this Lala falsely, mistaking the vowel point _a_ for
_u_, but there is no such word in Arabic.
[97] The Spaniards have no gold ducats, so this must have been silver,
value about a crown, so that the sum-total was L. 10 Sterling.
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