Note 138 — SECOND DISCOURSE
A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation
P. 258:
◆Shiraz, a town of Persia, capital of the Province of Fars, famous for its roses, wine and nightingales, sung by the Persian poets Hafiz and Saadi.
◆Plutarch, Alexander, Chap. XXXIX.
◆It is in his Observations de plusieurs singularités (Paris, 1554) that Belon reports this fact. (Liv. III., chap. x., p. 179.)