imitation of the Brazen Sea of Solomon's temple."—Bourgoanne's Travels in Spain.
Note 13, page 18, line 4.
Bright as that Pleïad, sphered in Mecca’s fane.
"Sept des plus fameux parmi les anciens poëtes Arabiques, sont designés par les ecrivains orientaux sous le nom de Pleïade Arabique, et leurs ouvrages etaient suspendus autour de la Caaba, ou Mosque de la Mecque."—Sismondi Litterature du Midi.
Note 14, page 19, line 7.
And thou, O last and noblest Constantine!
"The distress and fall of the last Constantine are more glorious than the long prosperity of the Byzantine Cæsars."—Gibbon's Decline and Fall, &c. vol. xii. p. 226.
Note 15, page 19, line 12.
The closing night of that imperial race!
See the description of the night previous to the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet II.—Gibbon, vol. xii. p. 225.
Note 16, page 20, line 10.
And the Seven Towers are scaled, and all is won and lost.
"This building (the Castle of the Seven Towers) is mentioned as early as the sixth century of the Christian æra, as a spot which contributed to the defence of Constantinople, and it was the principal bulwark of the town on the coast of the Propontis, in the last periods of the empire."—Pouqueville's Travels in the Morea.
