Not the range of
mountains
so called in Asia
Minor.
Minor.
Camoes - Lusiades
" He protected the murderer of his son from the
fury of his domestics and neighbours, and in the night facilitated his
escape.
[461] _i. e. _ crescent-shaped. --_Ed. _
[462] _In Rhodope. _--The beautiful fable of the descent of Orpheus to
hell, for the recovery of his beloved wife, Eurydice, will be found in
Virgil's Georgics, bk. iv. , lines 460-80. --_Ed. _
[463]
(_For now the banquet on the tented plain,
And sylvan chase his careless hours employ_). --
The great Mogul, and other eastern sovereigns, attended by their
courtiers, spend annually some months of the finest season in
encampments in the field, in hunting parties, and military amusements.
[464] _Th' enormous mountain. _--The Himalaya range, which is a
continuation of an immense chain of mountains girdling the northern
regions of the earth and known by various names, as Caucasus, Homodus,
Paropamissus, Imaus, etc. , and from Imaus extended through Tartary to
the sea of Kamschatka.
Not the range of mountains so called in Asia
Minor. --_Ed. _
[465] _As wild traditions tell. _--Pliny, imposed upon by some Greeks,
who pretended to have been in India, relates this fable. --Vide Nat.
Hist. lib. 12.
[466] _Is fondly plac'd in Ganges' holy wave. _--Almost all the Indian
nations attribute to the Ganges the virtue of cleansing the soul from
the stains of sin. They have such veneration for this river, that if any
one in their presence were to throw any filth into the stream, an
instant death would punish his audacity.
[467] Cambaya, the ancient Camanes of Ptolemy, gives name to the gulf of
that name at the head of which it is situated. It is the principal
seaport of Guzerat. --_Ed. _
[468] Porus was king of part of the Punjaub, and was conquered by
Alexander the Great. --_Ed.
fury of his domestics and neighbours, and in the night facilitated his
escape.
[461] _i. e. _ crescent-shaped. --_Ed. _
[462] _In Rhodope. _--The beautiful fable of the descent of Orpheus to
hell, for the recovery of his beloved wife, Eurydice, will be found in
Virgil's Georgics, bk. iv. , lines 460-80. --_Ed. _
[463]
(_For now the banquet on the tented plain,
And sylvan chase his careless hours employ_). --
The great Mogul, and other eastern sovereigns, attended by their
courtiers, spend annually some months of the finest season in
encampments in the field, in hunting parties, and military amusements.
[464] _Th' enormous mountain. _--The Himalaya range, which is a
continuation of an immense chain of mountains girdling the northern
regions of the earth and known by various names, as Caucasus, Homodus,
Paropamissus, Imaus, etc. , and from Imaus extended through Tartary to
the sea of Kamschatka.
Not the range of mountains so called in Asia
Minor. --_Ed. _
[465] _As wild traditions tell. _--Pliny, imposed upon by some Greeks,
who pretended to have been in India, relates this fable. --Vide Nat.
Hist. lib. 12.
[466] _Is fondly plac'd in Ganges' holy wave. _--Almost all the Indian
nations attribute to the Ganges the virtue of cleansing the soul from
the stains of sin. They have such veneration for this river, that if any
one in their presence were to throw any filth into the stream, an
instant death would punish his audacity.
[467] Cambaya, the ancient Camanes of Ptolemy, gives name to the gulf of
that name at the head of which it is situated. It is the principal
seaport of Guzerat. --_Ed. _
[468] Porus was king of part of the Punjaub, and was conquered by
Alexander the Great. --_Ed.
