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and dubbed with other precious Stones and great Pearls. And 
all the Pillars in his Chamber be of fine Gold with precious 
of Crystal full of Balm, to give sweet Smell and Odour to the 
year, according to the 4 Seasons, and that is only to engender 
Childre 
the text translated from Assemani. : 
P. 206. 21. Prester John’s letter emanating from Asia, not 
a 
written from Ethiopia. The geograpy is that of Asia, and the 
legends are, we believe, those of the Nestorians in Meso- 
potamia, India and the Further East. 
P. 209n. 1. 22. One of the Magi from the land of Tharse.— 
“ The Kingdom of Cathay marcheth toward the West with the 
Kingdom of Thurse, of the which was one of the Kings that 
came to give Presents to our Lord in Bethlehem. And they 
that be of the Lineage of that King are. some of them, Chris- 
instead of Thurse. Is not this borrowed from Hayton, the 
Armenian historian 2 
23. The lion and the Unicorn and St. Thomas.— Another 
thing struck me reatly in the pictures of Capt. M. W. 
Carr’s Descriplive and historical papers relating to the seven 
Pagodas, op. cit. Gods or goddesses, or heroes and heroines, 
are represented with the head of an animal on either side 
of them: in one case, the head of two elephants; in another 
case, a lion and what I took at first for an ass, till I noticed 
a long slender horn in the centre of the he . Here was 
the unicorn, and the heraldic device of the British arms, a 
lion and a unicorn, had been anticipated at the Seven Pagodas 
by ow many centuries? But, then, might St. Thomas 
hot have been represented at first in ancient Christian Indian 
art with devices borrowed from symbolism such as we find 
at the Seven Pagodas, in close proximity to Mylapore ? 
