1 The simplicity of the people of this valley is celebrated in many ‘Men of Gotham’ stories.
2 Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, vol. 1, pp. xxxiv–v, mentions the Etruscan remains that had been found at Mattrey (of which he gives a cut) and other places in Tirol up to his time.
3 It is noteworthy that so prominent an enquirer into Etruscan antiquities should bear a patronymic so connected with Etruria as Tarquini.
4 In Abbé Dubois’ introduction to his translation of the Pantcha Tantra, is a story called ‘La fille d’un roi changé en garçon,’ in which mention is made of a Brahman hermit who fixed his residence in a hollow tree.