admirablest buildings of the East, some three or foure miles in compasse, inclosed with a faire and strong wall of squared stone. ... King Acabars Sepulchre is 3 C. distant from Agra in the way to Lahor, nothing neere finished as yet, after tenne yeares worke. It is placed in the midst of a faire and large Garden, inclosed with brick walls, neere two miles in circuit; is to have foure Gates (but one of which is yet in hand) each, if answerable to this foundation, able to receive a great Prince with a reasonable traine. . . . In the Center of this Garden stands the Tombe foure square, about three quarters of a mile in compasse. The first inclosure is with a curious rayle, to which you ascend some six steps into a small square Garden quartered in curious Tankes, planted with variety of sweets, adjoyning to which is the Tombe, rounded with this gardenet, being also foure square, all of hewne stone, with faire spacious Galleries on each side, having at each corner a small beautifull Turret, arched over head, and covered with various Marble. Betwixt corner and corner are four other Turrets at like distance. Here within a faire round coffin of Gold lieth the body of this Monarch, who sometimes thought the World too little for him. . . . At my last sight thereof, there was only over head a rich Tent, with a Semaine over the Tombe. But it is to be inarched over with the most curious white and speckled Marble, and to be seeled all within with pure sheetGold richly inwrought. These foure last Turrets also inclosing the Sepulchre are of most rich curious Marble, and the ground underfoot paved with the like." (Ib. 1. 440.) Aialon. P. L. 12. 266. A broad valley of the Shephelah, Palestine, about fourteen miles west from Jerusalem. See Joshua 10. Ailsbury. Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 217. A town in the Vale of Ailsbury, Buckinghamshire. Ailsford. Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 116. A town in Kent, on the Medway. Akalon. Hist. Brit. (1) 5. 8. An unidentified river of Greece, mentioned by Geoffrey of Monmouth 1.5. Ak-lea (Oak-lea). Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 193. Ockley in Surrey, on the River Mole. (Camden 1. 168.) Aladule, Realm of. P. L. 10. 435. (See also Bactrian.) The mountainous country of Armenia. Purchas remarks of it: "Betweene Orpha and Caramit was the Paradise of Aladeules, where he had a fortresse destroyed by Selim. This his Paradise was like to that which you shall find in our Persian Historie. Men by a potion brought into a sleep were brought into this supposed Paradise, where at their waking they were presented with all sensuall pleasures of musike, damosels, dainties, etc., which, having had some taste of another sleepie drinke, after came againe to themselves. And then did Aladeules tell them that he could bring them when he pleased to Paradise, the place where they had beene, and if they would commit such murders or haughty attempts, it should be theirs. A dangerous device. Zelim the Turke destroyed the place." (Pilgrimage, p. 75.) Heylyn mentions the stout resistance of King Aladeules against the Turks. (Cosmography 3. 141.) Alaunus. Damon. 175. The united mouth of the Stour and the Avon, flowing into the Solent, Hampshire. (Camden 1. 115.) Alba Julia. Rami Vita 7. 185. Wissenburg, in Transylvania on the River Marosch. Albania. See Scotland. Albany. See Scotland. Albion. See Britain. Albracca. P. R. 3. 339. A fortress of Cathay, the siege of which is related by Boiardo in the Orlando Innamorato 1. 10 ff. With Milton's reference to "We shall see more armed the numbers at Albracca compare: Knights than were at the siege of Albracca, to conquer Angelica the faire." (Don Quixote, trans. Shelton, 2.2.) Alcairo. See Memphis. Alcinous, Garden of. Eleg. 3. 44; P. L. 5. 341; 9. 441; 2 Defens. 6. 257. (See also Adonis, Garden of.) Alcinous, king of the Phæacians, had near his palace a garden described by Homer as follows: "Hard by the door is a great garden, of four ploughgates, and a hedge runs round on either side. And there grow tall trees blossoming, pear-trees and pomegranates, and apple-trees with bright fruit, and sweet figs, and olives in their bloom. The fruit of these trees never perisheth neither faileth, winter nor summer, enduring throughout all the year. Evermore the West Wind blowing brings some fruit to birth and ripens others. Pear upon pear waxes old, and apple on apple, yea and cluster ripens upon cluster of the grape, and fig upon fig. There too hath he a fruitful vineyard planted, whereof the one part is being dried by the heat, a sunny plot on level ground, while other grapes men are gathering, and yet others they are treading in the wine-press. In the foremost row are unripe grapes that cast the blossom, and others there be that are growing black to vintaging. There too, skirting the furthest line, are all manner of garden beds, planted trimly, that are perpetually fresh, and therein are two fountains of water, whereof one scatters his streams all about the garden." (Odyssey 7. 112-30.) Alclud. See Edinburgh. Alcluith. See Dunbritton. Aldgate. See Algate. Aldra. See Aulre. Aleian Field. P. L. 7. 19. The field near Ale in Lycia where Bellerophon wandered and perished, after he "came to be hated of all the gods." (Iliad 6. 200.) Alexandria. Reformation (2) 3. 38; Church-gov. (1. Pref.) 3. 96; Tetrach. (Fath.) 4. 263; Education 4. 390; Areopag. 4. 413; 1 Defens. (2) 6. 32; (4) 6. 90; Lit. Oliv. (57) 7. 306. A city of Egypt at the northwest extremity of the Delta, in ancient times "judged by most to be the second if not the first city of the whole world." (Diodorus 1. 50.) Algate. Colast. 4. 370. (See also Addlegate.) Commonly Aldgate, a gate in the east part of the wall of London, which gave its name to the adjacent ward. Algiers (Argiers). P. L. 11. 404; Eikonocl. (27) 3. 508. (See also Almansor.) A country of North Africa, between Tunisia on the east and Morocco on the west. Its chief city is a seaport of the same name, described by Leo Africanus as follows: "It is a large towne, containing families to the number of fower thousand, and is environed with most stately and impregnable walles. The buildings thereof are very artificial and sumptuous, and every trade and occupation hath here a severall place. Innes, bathstoves, and temples here are very beautifull, but the stateliest temple of all standeth upon the sea-shore. Next unto the sea there is a most pleasant walke upon that part of the town wall which the waves beat upon. In the suburbs are many gardens replenished with all kind of fruits." (P. 682.) Allen. Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 106. (See also Maes German.) A river, tributary to the Dee, which waters the southern part of Flintshire. Allobroges. See Sabaudia. Almansor, Kingdoms of. P. L. 11. 403. (See also Algiers, Almanzor, or Mansur (939-1002), was a Mohammedan ruler of Andalusia and North Africa, of whom Leo Africanus says: "Certaine it is that the foresaid Mansor, whom we have so often mentioned, was a most puissant and mightie prince, for it is well known that his dominion stretched from the town of Messa to the kingdome of Tripolis in Barbary, which is the most excellent region of Africa, and so large that a man can hardly travel the length thereof in fourescore and ten daies, or the bredth in fifteen. This Mansor likewise was in times past Lord of all the kingdome of Granada in Spaine." (P. 270.) Ariosto gives a survey of North Africa as seen by Astolfo on an aerial journey. (Orlando Furioso 33. 99-100.) Almany. See Germany. Alney (Olanege). Hist. Brit. (6) 5. 260. (See also Deorhurst.) In putting the island of Alney in the River Severn near Deorhurst, Milton follows Camden (1. 261), to whom he refers in a note. 1 Alpheus. Arcades 30; Lycidas 132. (See also Arethuse.) A river rising in Arcadia, and flowing past Olympia into the Ionic Sea. It more than once disappears in caverns in the limestone, and flows underground for a space. Virgil gives the fable of the Alpheus as follows: "Stretched in front of the Sicanian bay lies an island; ... men called the place of old Ortygia. Fame says that hither Alpheus, river of Elis, forced his hidden way beneath the sea, who now through the mouth of thy fountain, Arethusa, mingles with the waves of Sicily." (Æneid 3. 692–6.) Alpinæ Valles. See Alps. Alpine Mountains. See Alps. Alps (Alpinæ Valles, Alpine Mountains). Sonnet 15.2; Quint. Nov. 48; Damon. 114; P. L. 2. 620; Samson 628; Churchgov. (2. Pref.) 3. 144; Tetrach. (Gen. 2. 18) 4. 158; Hist. Brit. (2) 5. 47, 85; (5) 5. 227, 231; 2 Defens. 6. 289; Lit. Oliv. (9) 7. 248; (11) 7. 250; (15) 7. 255; (32) 7. 276; (36) 7. 282; (44) 7. 293; (69) 7. 320; Contra Hisp. 7. 367; Epist. Fam. (8) 7. 381; Moscovia (3) 8. 485; Sixteen Let. 1, 16. In his return from Italy Milton crossed the Pennine Alps. (2 Defens. 6. 289.) These lie between Haute Savoie and Wallis on one side, and Turin and Novara on the other, and include Mont Blanc. Masson thinks Milton may have gone by the Pass of Great Saint Bernard. (Life of Milton 1. 831.) Possibly Milton's reference to the disease of goitre, common among "those in Italy that live under the Alps" (Moscovia (3) 8. 485), is the result of observation. However, it has long been the subject of remark (e. g. Juvenal 13. 162). In his poetry Milton never refers to the Alps without using some adjective such as "cold," or "snowy." His reference in Tetrachordon is ultimately based on the story in Livy (21. 37) how Hannibal softened the rocks of the Alps with vinegar, in order to cut them away in making a road for his army. The "Alpine Mountains" of Sonnet 15, and the "Alpine Valleys" of the Letters of State refer to the dwellings of the Waldenses in high valleys in Piedmont. "Alp" (P. L. 2. 620; Samson 628) is a common noun meaning mountain. Alteen (Alty). Moscovia (3) 8. 485, 486 (twice). (See also Tooma.) The part of Siberia near the headwaters of the River Ob. The passage of the Pilgrimes to which Milton refers in a note |