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the most noted. The latter is very hardy; not only 
braving our climate, but being found in much higher 
latitudes, both in Europe and North America, even 
near or within the arctic circle. The first mentioned, 
(N. lotos, or Nilufer, according to the Indian or Per¬ 
sian nomenclature,) which resembles our common white 
species, is the true Egyptian lotos, and has obtained 
the greatest celebrity, from the veneration with which 
it was regarded throughout the East, and from the 
many mythological fables to which it has in consequence 
given birth. Not only by the Egyptians, but also by 
the Hindoos and Persians, it was consecrated to the 
sun, which they invoked as “ lord of the lotos,” and 
represented 
“ Robed with light, with lotos crown’d.” 
It seems, indeed, to occupy the place in their poetry 
which the rose does in that of the Europeans. In 
allusion, perhaps, to the world rising from the waters, 
the Eastern deities are frequently represented seated on 
a lotos flower; a circumstance to which Sir W. Jones, in 
his imitations of Hindoo odes, often elegantly adverts. 
In the hymn to Narayena, which signifies moving on the 
water , the first rising of the god is thus described: — 
