Ixii NOTES. 



Maurusians Cohabitants of Mauritania) " Indians who had come with Her- 

 cules." 



C 323 ) p. 209. Diod. Sic. lib. ii. cap. 2 and 3. 



(S 24 ) p. 209. Ctesise Cnidii Operum reliquiae, ed. Baehr., Fragment* 

 Assyriaca, p. 421 ; and Carl Miiller, in Dindorf 's edition of Herodotus, Par. 

 1844, p. 1315. 



C 525 ) p. 210. Gibbon, Hist, of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 

 Vol. ix. chap. 1. p. 200, Leips. 1829. 



C 326 ) p. 210. Humboldt, Asie centr. T. ii. p. 128. 



C 327 ) p. 211. Jourdain, Recherches critiques sur 1'Age des Traductions 

 d'Aristote, 1819, p. 81 and 8?. 



(S 28 ) p. 214. Respecting the knowledge which the Arabians derived from 

 the Hindoos, in the study of the materia medica, see Wilson's important iuvesti- 

 gations, in the Oriental Magazine of Calcutta, 1823, Feb. and March ; and 

 those of Royle, in his Essay on the Antiquity of Hindoo Medicine, 1837, p. 

 56 59, 64 66, 73, and 92. Compare an account of Arabic pharniaceutic 

 writings, translated from Hindostanee, in Ainslie (Madras edition), p. 289. 



f^) p. 215. Gibbon, Vol. ix. chap. Ii. p. 392 ; Heeren, Gesch. des 

 Studiums der classischen Litteratur, Bd. i. 1797, S. 44 and 72; Sacy, Abd- 

 Allatif, p. 240; Parthey, das alexandrinische Museum, 1838, S. 106. 



(5 30 ) p. 216. Heinrich Ritter, Gesch. der christlichen Philosophic, Th. iii. 

 1844, S. 669676. 



(5 31 ) p. 217. The learned Orientalist, Reinaud, in three late writings, 

 which shew how much may still be derived from Arabic and Persian, as well 

 as Chinese sources ; Fragments arabes et persans inedits relatifs a Flnde an- 

 terieurement au 11 erne Siecle de 1'Ere chretienne, 1845, p. xx. xxxiii. ; 

 Relation des Voyages faits par les Arabes et les Persans dans PInde et a la 

 Chine dans le 9eme Siecle de notre Ere, 1845, T. i. p. xlvi. ; Meinoire geog. 

 et hist, sur PInde d'apres les Ecrivains arabes, persans et chinois, anterieure- 

 ment au milieu du onzieme Siecle de PEre chretienne, 1846, p. 6. The 

 second of these memoirs is based on the far less complete treatise of the Abbe 

 Renaudot, entitled " Anciennes Relations des Indes, et de la Chine, de deux 

 Voyageurs mahometans," 1718. The Arabic manuscript contains only one 

 notice of a voyage, viz. that of the merchant Soleiinan, who embarked on the 

 Persian Gulf in the year 851 ; to which is added, what Abu-Zeyd-Hassan, of 

 Syraf in Farsistan, who had never travelled to India or China, could learu 

 from other well-informed merchants. 



