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Note 33.Page 142.
"Solinus."
Solinus wrote "De Mirabilibus Mundi." He was a Latin grammarian; but the period in which he flourished is doubtful. Moreri says, his work was entitled Polyhistor, "qui est un recueil des choses les plus mémorables qu'on voit en divers païs."
Note 34.Page 143.
This story does not appear in Pliny.
Note 35.Page 144.
"Serpent called Perna."
There is no such monster in Pliny. He uses the word for a scion or graft, book 17. c. x. and it also signifies a kind of shell-fish, according to Basil. Faber.
Note 36.Page 144.
"Achates."
Achates is the Latin name for agate. "Found it was first in Sicilie, near unto a river called likewise Achates; but afterwards in many other places."
