3.  Better known as the Mauritius.

4.  This proposition may be accepted with confidence.  Electricity is a great mystery, which becomes more mysterious the more it is studied.

5.  A letter of the author’s, dated 13th March, 1809, is extant, in which he gives a full description of the performance of Macbeth at the Haymarket by Kemble and Mrs. Siddons on Saturday, 11th March.  The author sailed in the Devonshire on the 24th March.

6.  No European had ever before, I believe, noted this, [W.  H. S.] Moin-ud-din (p. 49) says that this phrase, ’Thou art our patron, help as therefore against the unbelieving nations,’ is from the long chapter 2 (’The Cow’) of the Koran, but I have not succeeded in finding the exact words in Sale’s version of that chapter.  I suspect that the words have been misread.  Moin-ud-din gives as the words at the north side of the tomb, script characters ’the unbelieving nations’, whereas Muh.  Latif (Agra, p. 111) says that the words ’on the head of the sarcophagus’ are script characters ’He is the everlasting.  He is sufficient.’  It will be observed that the characters in the two readings are almost identical.

7.  The Empress had been a good deal exasperated against the Portuguese and Dutch by the treatment her husband received from them when a fugitive, after an unsuccessful rebellion against his father; and her hatred to them extended, in some degree, to all Christians, whom she considered to be included in the term ‘Kafir’, or unbeliever. [W.  H. S.] Prince Shah Jahan (Khurram) rebelled against his father, Jahangir, in A.D. 1623, and submitted in A.D. 1625.  The terrible punishment inflicted by Shah Jahan when Emperor on the Portuguese of Hugli (Hooghly) is related by Bernier (Constable’s ed., pp. 177, 287).  The Emperor had previously destroyed the Jesuits’ church at Lahore completely, and the greater part of the church at Agra.

8.  The cleverness, astuteness, energy, and business capacity of Aurangzeb are undoubted, and yet his long reign was a disastrous failure.  The author reflects the praises of Muhammadans who cherish the memory of the ‘namazi’.  The Emperor himself knew better when, in his old ago, he wrote to his son Azam the pathetic words, ’I have not done well by the country or its people.  My years have gone by profitless’ (Lane-Poole’s version in Aurangzib (Rulers of India), p. 203.  Letter No. 72 in Bilimoria, Letters of Aurungzbe, Bombay, 1908.  Another version in E. and D. vii, 562.) His reign lasted for almost forty-nine years, from June 1658 to February 1707, and not for only forty years.

9.  The real tombs are in the vault below.  Beautiful cenotaphs stand under the dome.  The inscription on the tomb of the Empress is exactly repeated on her cenotaph, and runs thus:-
    ’The splendid sepulchre of Arjumand Bano Begam, entitled Mumtaz
Mahall, deceased in the year 1040 Hijri.’