Tresor : mont Niles; Solinus : mons qui Nulo dicitur

2. This is, of course, the Caucasus Indicus (though it would be rash to

assume that Brunetto was aware of the fact), otherwise known as the Paropumisus the modern Hindu-Kusb, which is merely a native form of the first name.

3. Oprobaine, of course, stands for Taprobane (Ceylon). Brunetto places it in the Red Sea! — ncedless to say not on the authority of Solinus. The latier, however, happens to mention Taprohane and the Rubrum mare close to ther in the same paragraph (LIII. 8), which doubtless accounts for Brunetto's absurd mistake.

4. The monsters here mentioned, to which Br. gives the name of quoca= Hrix, are called bniri marini by Solinus,

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