1 Signifying a fig-tree, from the multitude of figs which grow round the trunk.

2 Sir Joseph Banks.

3 Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 11.

4 Melch. Guilandin. Philosoph. and Medic. Lausanne, Ann. 1576 8vo.

5 Anac. Ode. iv.

6 Theoph. Hist. plant. lib. iv. cap. 9.

7 Joseph. lib. xii. p. 405.

8 Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 13. cap. 11.

9 Plutarch in Agesilao.

10 Athen. lib. 15.

11 Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 11.

12 Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 21.

13 Herodot. lib. xi.

14 Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 12.

15 Plin. lib. xiii.cap. 13.

16 Sir Joseph Banks shewed me a slip of paper which he got from an Italian gentleman, made, if I remember, of a cyperus found in the river or lake of Thrasymene. I do not recollect the process, but the paper itself was infinitely superior to any I had seen attempted, and seemed to possess a great portion of flexibility, and was more likely to answer the purposes of paper than even the old Egyptian, if it had been dressed up and finished.

17 Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 13.

18 Plin. lib. xiii. cap. 13.

19 Scruples about cleanness.

20 Plin. lib. 13. ut. sup.

21 Plin. lib. xiii. cap. 11.

22 Ibid. id.

23 Mr Adamson, interpreter to the French factory of Seide, a man of great merit and knowledge in natural history, brother to the naturalist of that name, who has wrote the voyage to Senegal, and particularly an account of the shells of those seas, full of barbarous words, and liberal ideas.

24 Dec. 22d, 1610.

25 Purchas, chap. xi. §. 3.

26 Joseph. Antiquit. lib. v.

27 Gen. chap. xxxvii. ver. 25.

28 Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xii. cap. 25.

29 They were murdered at Azab, see vol. I. p. 319.

30 Theophrast. hist. plants, lib. iii. cap. 8. lib. iv. cap. 2. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 9. J. Bauh. lib. iii. cap. 86.

31 Psalm xcii. ver. 10.

32 Vol. iii. p. 220.

33 Numb. chap. xxiii. ver. 22.

34 Job, chap. xxxix, ver. 9.

35 Job, chap. xxxix. ver. 10.

36 Isaiah, chap. xxxiv. ver. 7.

37 Isaiah, chap. vii. ver. 18. and 19.

38 Exod. chap. viii. ver. 22.

39 Deut. chap. xxxiii. 17. Psalm xxii. 21.

40 This shews that the Mosaic pavement of PrÆneste is not a record of Alexander’s expedition into India, as Doctor Shaw has pretended, sect. vii. p. 423.

41 Martial de Spectac.

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.