{77} Evidently the primaeval custom of embalming the dead, and
keeping mummies in the house, still lingered among the Egyptians.

{108} These sounds, like those which St. Guthlac heard in the
English fens, are plainly those of wild-fowl.

{115} The Brucheion, with its palaces and museum, the residence of
the kings and philosophers of Egypt, had been destroyed is the days
of Claudius and Valerian, during the senseless civil wars which
devastated Alexandria for twelve years; and monks had probably taken
up their abode in the ruins. It was in this quarter, at the
beginning of the next century, that Hypatia was murdered by the
monks.

{116} Probably the Northern, or Lesser Oasis, Ouah el Baharieh,
about eighty miles west of the Nile.

{117a} Jerome (who sailed that sea several times) uses the word
here, as it is used in Acts xxvii. 27, for the sea about Malta,
"driven up and down in Adria."

{117b} The southern point of Sicily, now Cape Passaro.

{118} In the Morea, near the modern Navarino.

{119a} At the mouth of the Bay of Cattaro.

{119b} This story--whatever belief we may give to its details--is
one of many which make it tolerably certain that a large snake