Note 198 — CANAAN, CNAAN,
Reading edition
Which however is paying them no great compliment. To these respectable personages I must add the evidence of a modern; one too of no small repute, even the great Scaliger. He says, that he made a strict scrutiny about this affair, when in Italy; and the result of his observations was this: [198]Ferrariæ multos (cygnos) vidimus, sed cantores sane malos, neque melius ansere canere.