[Footnote 150:  The Casanatense MS. here interpolates:  “Thence it takes seven days to Lusis, where there are 2,000 Israelites.”  Asher substitutes for Lusis Wasit, a place near the Tigris.  I am unable to identify the river Virae, and the words “which is in the land of Al Yemen” are evidently out of place.]

[Footnote 151:  See Dr. Hartwig Hirschfeld’s account of a Fragment of a Work by Judah Al-harizi, being a description of a pilgrimage through Mesopotamia with a view to visit Ezra’s grave.  The Arab geographer Yakut locates the grave in the village Maisan on the river Samara near the place where the Euphrates and Tigris unite (J.  Q.R., vol.  XV, 683).  Layard writes as follows:—­“We stopped at the so-called tomb of the prophet Ezra, about twenty-five miles from the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates, at Korna.  The building, which is of a comparatively modern date, consisted of two chambers, an outer one which was empty, and an inner one containing the tomb built of bricks, covered with white stucco and enclosed in a wooden case, over which was thrown a large blue cloth fringed with yellow tassels with the name of the donor embroidered on it in Hebrew characters.  No trace of either the large synagogue or of the mosque mentioned by Benjamin now exists, and it may be doubted whether the present building covers the tomb which was seen by the Hebrew traveller.  We could find no ancient remains near it, as the Tigris is constantly changing its course, and was still eating away the bank of alluvial soil, upon the edge of which the building stood.  It is highly probable that the tomb seen by Benjamin of Tudela had long before been carried away by the river.”  Layard’s Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia, vol.  II, p. 214.  See also an elaborate note of Dr. Benisch, p. 91 of his edition of Pethachia’s Travels, and I.J.  Benjamin II, Eight Years in Asia and Africa, p. 167.]

[Footnote 152:  As for the river Gozan see p. 33, n. 3, and p. 58, n. 4.  The mountains of Chafton, referred to also in pp. 54, 55, would seem to include not only the Zagros range, but also the highlands of Kurdistan.]

[Footnote 153:  Marco Polo, book II, chap, xlv, says of Tibet:  “In this country there are many of the animals that produce musk.  The Tartars have great numbers of large and fine dogs which are of great service in catching the musk-beasts, and so they procure a great abundance of musk.”]

[Footnote 154:  The reputed sepulchre of Daniel is situated between Schuster and Dizful in Persia, close by the river Shaour, an affluent of the Karun river, which is supposed to be the Ulai of the Bible, Dan. viii. 2.  It is within sight of the vast mound which denotes the site of Susa, the ancient Shushan.  Here Mme. Dieulafoy in 1881 made extensive excavations