Ahasuerus, cotton hangings in the palace of, at Shushan, 66 Alexander the Great, descent of the Indus and Hydaspes by, 68 „ „ sagacity and wise policy of, 67, 72 „ „ opens up the Euphrates and Tigris, 71 „ „ selects the site of Alexandria, 68 „ „ Europe indebted to, for the introduction of cotton, 72 Alexandria made the centre of the Indian trade, 72 „ Lighthouse, Library, and Temple of Serapis at, 71 „ destruction of the Library of--Appendix H, 105 Amasis II., Corselet padded with cotton presented to Sparta by King, 46 Aristobulus mentions “a tree bearing wool, which was carded,” 47 „ report by, of the great heat at Susiana-Shushan, 66 Arrian’s account of the cotton trade in his day, 73 Barnacle Geese, the fable of, compared with that of the Barometz, 52 Barometz the, described by Sir John Mandeville, 2 „ „ „ Claude Duret, 5, 16 „ „ „ Talmudical writers, 6 „ „ „ Odoricus of Friuli, 8 „ „ „ Fortunio Liceti, 11 „ „ „ Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, 11 „ „ „ Sigismund von Herberstein, 11 „ „ „ Guillaume Postel, 13 „ „ „ Michel, the Interpreter, 13 „ „ „ Girolamo Cardano, 13 „ „ „ Julius Cæsar Scaliger, 14 „ „ „ Antonius Deusingius, 15 „ „ „ Athanasius Kircher, 21 „ „ „ Jean de Struys, 21 „ „ in verse by Guillaume de Saluste, Sieur du Bartas, 17 „ „ „ Joshua Sylvester, translator of the above, 18 „ „ „ Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 35 „ „ „ Dr. De la Croix, 36 „ „ sought for by Dr. Engelbrecht Kaempfer, 23 „ „ „ „ John Bell, of Autermony, 28, Appendix F, 103 „ „ „ „ the Abbé Chappe d’Auteroche, 30 Barometz, origin of the word, 23 „ the fable of the, 1 „ „ „ compared with that of the “Barnacle Geese,” 52 „ „ „ its various phases and transformations, 1, 53 Bartas, the Sieur du, lines by, on the Barometz, 17 Bell, John, seeks ineffectually the “Vegetable Lamb,” 28 Borametz. _See_ Barometz. Breyn, Dr., describes to the Royal Society his Chinese artificial “Lamb,” 30 British Museum, specimen of the “Scythian Lamb” in, 24, 43 Buckley, Mr., Chinese articles presented to the Royal Society by, 27 „ „ his Chinese dog fashioned from rhizome of a fern, 27