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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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477.] [Footnote 6: The aromatics, especially the thus, or frankincense, of Arabia, occupy the xiith book of Pliny.

Our great poet (Paradise Lost, l.

iv.) introduces, in a simile, the spicy odors that are blown by the north-east wind from the Sabaean coast:----Many a league, Pleased with the grateful scent, old Ocean smiles.

(Plin.Hist.Natur.xii.

42.)] [Footnote 7: Agatharcides affirms, that lumps of pure gold were found, from the size of an olive to that of a nut; that iron was twice, and silver ten times, the value of gold, (de Mari Rubro, p.


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