1. In the chapter on Georgia: “Mare quod dicitur Gheluchelan _vel ABACU_”.... “Est ejus stricta via et dubia. Ab una parte est mare _quod dixi de ABACU_ et ab aliâ nemora invia,” etc. (See I. p. 59, note 8.) 2. “Et ibi optimi austures _dicti AVIGI_” (I. 50). 3. After the chapter on Mosul is another short chapter, already alluded to: “_Prope hanc civitatem (est) alia provincia dicta MUS e MEREDIEN in quâ nascitur magna quantitas bombacis, et hic fiunt bocharini et alia multa, et sunt mercatores homines et artiste_.” (See i. p. 60.) 4. In the chapter on _Tarcan_ (for Carcan, _i.e._ Yarkand): “_Et maior pars horum habent unum ex pedibus grossum et habent gosum in gulâ_; et est hic fertilis contracta.” (See i. p. 187.) 5. In the Desert of Lop: “_Homines trasseuntes appendunt bestiis suis capanullas_ [_i.e._ campanellas] _ut ipsas senciant et ne deviare possint_” (i. p. 197.) 6. “Ciagannor, _quod sonat in Latino STAGNUM ALBUM_.” (i. p. 296.) 7. “Et in medio hujus viridarii est palacium sive logia, _tota super columpnas. Et in summitate cujuslibet columnæ est draco magnus circundans totam columpnam, et hic substinet eorum cohoperturam cum ore et pedibus_; et est cohopertura tota de cannis hoc modo,” etc. (See i. p. 299.) [20] My valued friend Sir Arthur Phayre made known to me the passage in _O’Curry’s Lectures_. I then procured the extracts and further particulars from Mr. J. Long, Irish Transcriber and Translator in Dublin, who took them from the Transcript of the _Book of Lismore_, in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy. [Cf. _Anecdota Oxoniensia. Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore, edited with a translation ... by_ Whitley Stokes, Oxford, 1890.—_Marco Polo_ forms fo. 79 a, 1–fo. 89 b, 2, of the MS., and is described pp. xxii.–xxiv. of Mr. Whitley Stokes’ Book, who has since published the Text in the _Zeit. f. Celtische Philol._ (See _Bibliography_, vol. ii. p. 573.)— H. C.] XI. SOME ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER OF POLO AND HIS BOOK. [Sidenote: Grounds of Polo’s pre-eminence among mediæval travellers.] 66. That Marco Polo has been so universally recognised as the King of Mediæval Travellers is due rather to the width of his experience, the vast compass of his journeys, and the romantic nature of his personal history, than to transcendent superiority of character or capacity.