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CHAPTER XL: Reign Of Justinian
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321-326;) but seem to have vanished in the more recent account of the Missions du Levant, (tom.

i.,) Tott, Peysonnnel, &c.] [Footnote 127: For the geography and architecture of this Armenian border, see the Persian Wars and Edifices (l.ii.c.

4-7, l.iii.

c.
2--7) of Procopius.] [Footnote 128: The country is described by Tournefort, (Voyage au Levant, tom.iii.lettre xvii.

xviii.) That skilful botanist soon discovered the plant that infects the honey, (Plin.xxi.44, 45:) he observes, that the soldiers of Lucullus might indeed be astonished at the cold, since, even in the plain of Erzerum, snow sometimes falls in June, and the harvest is seldom finished before September.


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