Caspian

After this, by the course of the Jaxartes Hve the Sacae, carrying bows, which no other bowman may disgrace, for they (LI. 746-51.) are not accustomed to shoot in vain.” So is sons. Hist. Brit. (2) 5. 31. A city of France, in the department of Aisne. Solofky. Moscovia (1) 8. 476. The monastery of Solovetsky, on an island in the southern part of the White Sea. Milton’s source is the following: “We We had here dear rived at a monasterie named Solofky. livered us by the chiefe monkes of the monasterie their letter... and house seale, and a servant of theirs to conduct us safely through the dangerous river of Owiga. The people of all those parts are wild, and speake another kind of language, and are The efifect of the for the most part all tenants to the monasterie. letter was that they should be ready to help and a ist us in all dangerous places, and carie our boats and goods over land in places need full, as in deed they did.... The number of monkes belonging to the monasterie are at the least 200.” (Hak. 1. 366.) Solomon, Garden of. P. L. 9. 442. (See also Hinnom.) The garden mentioned in Solomon’s Song. gests a place “inclosed” (Solomon’s Quaresmius sug by mountains Song 4. 12) near Bethlehem, and also a situation just east of Jerusalem, where was the King’s Garden. (Nehemiah 3. 15.) He refers to Adrichomius, whose words may be translated: “The King’s Garden, which is called the garden shut up, was a garden in the suburbs of Jerusalem, shut in on all sides by walls, and made strong, and like a paradise, pleasant with a profusion of trees, shrubs, herbs, spices, flowers, and fruits, fit for softening and In heating the pa ions, and suited to voluptuous retirement. where he imthis was included that fountain Rogel molated the victims of Adonis, when he had established that (Pp. 170, 140, map.) worship, and feasted with his parasites.’’ The fountain Rogel is perhaps the same as Gihon. (See Siloa.) Quaresmius believes that the king had many gardens, referring. to Ecclesiastes 2. 4-6. ch274.xhtml s 287