text:  Milton it is true with other excellent scholars has _insinuated_ his belief that probably Taprobane is Ceylon; when our Saviour in the wilderness sees the great vision of Roman power expressed _inter alia_ by high officers of the Republic flocking to or from the gates of Rome and "embassies from regions far remote " crowding the Appian or the Emilian roads some "From the Asian kings and Parthian amongst these; From India and the golden Chersonese And utmost Indian isle Taprobane * * * * * Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed;" it is probable from the mention of this island Taprobane following so closely after that of the Malabar peninsula that Milton held it to be the island of Ceylon and not of Sumatra