Note 1 — CHAP. VII.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. xxx. p. 175.
2: The "cloud-coloured stone" may possibly have been marble, but no traces of marble have been found in the ruins. Diodorus, in describing some of the monuments of Egypt alludes to a "party-coloured" stone, [Greek: lithon poikilon], which likewise remains without identification.—Diodorus, l. i. c. lvii.
3: Mahawanso, ch. xxix. p. 169; ch. xxx. p. 179.