Imaus

P. L. 3. 431. (See also Scythia, Tartar i a.) A name sometimes applied to the Him a lay as or part of them, but more often to mountains extending north from the Him a lay as to the Arctic Ocean, and cutting in two the northern part of: The Scythians on the west and east of the chain were known respectively as those intra and extra Imaum, as appears, for example, on Mercat or’s map of This is what Milton had in mind when he Tartar i a. (P. 665.) Asia, known as Tartar i a or Scythia. wrote a Vultur on Imaus bred, Whose snowie ridge the roving Tartar bounds. The description of the mountain as snow-covered suggests the words of Pliny: “Imaus, which sign if i eth in that country language full of snow.” (6. 17.) Ind. India. See India, East. Contra Hisp. 7. 352, 363. (See following articles.) In the time of Milton, India was the ” name given to all remote countries East and West.” (Pilgrimage, p. 859.) India, East (Ind, India OrientaHs). 606; P. L. 1. 781; 2. 2; 3. 436; Nat. Non 45; 5. 339; 9. 81, Comus 139, 1102, 1108; Divorce (1. 13) 4. 54; Tetrach. (Gen. 1. 27) 4. 148; Lit. Senat. (44) 7. 234; (45) 7. 236 (twice); Lit. Oliv. P. R. 4. 74, 75; (26) 7. 269; (30) 7. 273; (31) 7. 274; Grammar (2) 6. 487; Moscovia (3) 8. 485. (See also Agra, Banda, India (West), Malabar, Tidore.) The peninsula of Hindu stan and the other lands and islands Milton seems to in that quarter, especially to the eastward. have been especially attracted by descriptions of Indian fruits, as he indicates in the following: From each tender stalk Whatever Earth all-bearing Mother yeilds In India East or West, or middle shoare In Pontus or the Punic Coast, or where Alcinous reign’d, fruit of all kindes, in coate. Rough, or smooth rin’d, or bearded husk, or shell She gathers, Tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand; for drink the Grape She crushes, inoffensive moust, and meathes From many a berrie, and from sweet kernels prest She tempers dulcet creams, nor these to hold Wants her fit ve els pure. (P. L. 5. 337-348.) Some of this perhaps came from the writings of Linschoten, and at least is illustrated by his description of the cocoanut: “The Nuts are as great as an Estridge Egge, some smaller, and some greater, and are outwardly covered with a huske or shell which as long as it groweth on the tree is greene without like an Acorne with his huske or cup. haire like ch150.xhtml h 168