[10] More likely from Nepâl, where it is called _tejapât_.—B. I. P.
[11] Obtained from the root of _Nardostachys jatamansi_, a native of the eastern Himâlayas.—J. B.
[12] It is brought now from the Eastern Archipelago.—B. I. P.
[13] In early times it was obtained chiefly from _Styrax officinalis_, a native of the same region.—J. B.
[14] Nero gave for one 300 talents = £58,125. They were first seen at Rome in the triumphal procession of Pompey. [May these not have been of emerald, or even ruby?—J. B.]
[15] Possibly the Lapis Lazuli is meant.—J. B.
[16] There was another Arsinoe between Ras Dh’ib and Ras Shukhair, lat. 28° 3´ N. The few geographical indications added by Mr. Burgess to these comments as they passed through the press are enclosed in brackets. []
[17] Bruce, _Travels_, vol. III., p. 62.—J. B.
[18] From the Tamil _ariśi_, rice deprived of the husk.—_Caldwell._
[20] “This” (Mons Pulcher) says Major-General Miles, “is Jebel Lahrim or Shaum, the loftiest and most conspicuous peak on the whole cape (Mussendom), being nearly 7,000 feet high.”—_Jour. R. As. Soc._ (N.S.) vol. X. p. 168.—ED.
[21] “The city of Omana is Ṣoḥar, the ancient capital of Omana, which name, as is well known, it then bore, and Pliny is quite right in correcting _former writers_ who had placed it in Caramania, on which coast there is no good evidence that there was a place of this name. Nearchus does not mention it, and though the author of the _Periplûs of the Erithræan Sea_ does locate it in Persia, it is pretty evident he never visited the place himself, and he must have mistaken the information he obtained from others. It was this city of Ṣoḥar most probably that bore the appellation of Emporium Persarum, in which, as Philostorgius relates, permission was given to Theophilus, the ambassador of Constantine, to erect a Christian church.” The Homna of Pliny may be a repetition of Omana or Ṣoḥar, which he had already mentioned.—Miles in _Jour. R. As. Soc._ (N. S.) vol. X. pp. 164-5.—ED.
[26] See Arrian’s Anab. VI. 19. Καὶ τοῦτο οὔπω πρότερον εγνωκόσι τοῖς ἀμφ' Ἀλέξανδρον ἔκπληξιν μὲν καὶ αὐτὸ οὐ σμικρὰν παρέσχε.
[28] See id. VI. 23, and Strab. xv. ii. 3, 4.
[30] This may perhaps be represented by the modern Khâu, the name of one of the western mouths of the Indus.