know by what spell the Thessalian sorceress snatches away the
lunar beam.'"--_Magic Incantations_, by Christianus Pazig (circ. 1700),
edited by Edmund Goldsmid, F.R.H.S., F.S.A. (Scot.), 1886, pp. 30, 31.
See, too, Virgil, _Eclogues_, viii. 69, "Carmina vel c[oe]lo possunt de
ducere Lunam."]

[142] {291}["Tubal-Cain [the seventh in descent from Cain] was an
instructor of every artificer of brass and iron" (_Gen._ iv. 22).
According to the _Book of Enoch_, cap. viii., it was "Azazel," one of
the "sons of the heavens," who "taught men to make swords, and knives,
and skins, and coats of mail, and made known to them metals, and the art
of working them, bracelets and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and
the beautifying of the eyebrows, and the most costly and choicest
stones, and all colouring tincture, so that the world was changed."]

[143] [_Vide post_, p. 294.]

[144] {294}[Byron's knowledge of Mount Ararat was probably derived from
the following passage in Tournefort: "It is a most frightful sight;
David might well say such sort of places show the grandeur of the Lord.
One can't but tremble to behold it; and to look on the horrible
precipices ever so little will make the head turn round. The noise made
by a vast number of crows [hence the 'rushing sound,' _vide post_, p.
295], who are continually flying from one side to the other, has
something in it very frightful. To form any idea of this place you must
imagine one of the highest mountains in the world opening its bosom,
only to show the most horrible spectacle that can be thought of. All the
precipices are perpendicular, and the extremities are rough and
blackish, as if a smoke came out of the sides and smutted them."--_A
Voyage in the Levant_, by M. [Joseph Pitton de] Tournefort, 1741, iii.
205, 206.

Kitto also describes this "vast chasm," which contained "an enormous
mass of ice, which seems to have fallen from a cliff that overhangs the
ice" (_Travels in Persia_, 1846, i. 34); but Professor Friedrich Parrot,
who was the first to ascend Mount Ararat, does not enlarge upon the
"abyss" or chasm.--_Journey to Ararat_, translated by W. D. Cowley,
1845, p. 134.]

[145] [Compare the description of the "roots like snakes," which "wind
out from rock and sand," in the scene on the Hartz Mountains in Goethe's
_Faust_.]

[146] {296} [Medwin (_Conversations_, 1824, p. 233) compares the
laughter of the fiends in the cave of Caucasus with the snoring of the
Furies in