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ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. . 



( J ) p. 260. " Characteristic names in Arabic and 

 Persian." 



More than twenty different terms might be cited as used 

 by Arabs in speaking of steppes, (tanufah), to denote deserts 

 without water, entirely bare, covered with siliceous sand, or 

 interspersed with spots affording some pasture: (sahara, 

 kafr, mikfar, tih, and mehme.) Sahl, is a low plain ; dak- 

 kah, a desolate elevated plain. In Persian, " beyaban" sig- 

 nifies the arid sandy desert, as do the Mogul " gobi," and 

 the Chinese "han-hai," and " scha-mo." "Yaila" is a 

 steppe covered rather with grasses or herbage than with 

 herbaceous plants ; so are also the Mogul " kiidah," and 

 the Turkish tala," or " tschol," and the Chinese "huang." 

 " Deshti-reft" is an elevated plain devoid of vegetation. 

 (Humboldt, Delation hist. T. ii. p. 158.) 



( 2 ) p. 260. " In the old Castilian idiom" 



Pico, picacho, mogote, cucurucho, espigon, loma tendida, 

 mesa, panecillo, farallon, tablon, pefia, penon, pefiasco, 

 pefioleria, roca partida, laxa, cerro, sierra, serrania, cordil- 

 lera, monte, montafia, montafiuela, cadena de montes, los 

 altos, malpais, reventazon, bufa, &c. 



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