^{page 125 note *} See Rimbault's Introduction to Hopkins' History of the Organ, p. 76.

^{page 127 note *} By the Christians of Saint Thomas, Alvarez alludes to the story of St. Thomas having been the founder of the Christian communities on the Malabar coast and in India. For the Cochin here spoken of is the Cochin on Malabar.

^{page 129 note *} I do not know whether it has ever been remarked in illustration of this expression that Plutarch and Strabo mention a Babylonish hymn recounting the 360 virtues of the palm.

^{page 132 note *} L'Inscription Syro-Chinoise de Sin-gnan-fou, &c. par G. Pauthier. 8vo. Paris, 1858. Memoire sur l'authenticité de l'Inscription de Sin gnan-fou, by the same; reprinted from Bonetty's Annales de la Philosophie chrétienne, 1857.