Melmoth the Wanderer 1820 by Charles Robert Maturin

Author:Charles Robert Maturin
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2018-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

*Written mountains, i.e. rocks inscribed with characters recordative of some remarkable event, are well known to every oriental traveller. I think it is in the notes of Dr Coke, on the book of Exodus, that I have met with the circumstance alluded to above. A rock near the Red Sea is said once to have borne the inscription, ‘Israel hath passed the flood.’

*Vide Maurice’s Indian Antiquities.

*The Cupid of the Indian mythology.

†The Indian Apollo.

*The curtain behind which women are concealed.

*From the fire-flies being so often found in the nest of the loxia, the Indians imagine he illuminates his nest with them. It is more likely they are the food of his young.

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