60.) These real or imaginary treasures are vanished; and no gold mines are at present known in Arabia, (Niebuhr, Description, p.

124.) * Note: A brilliant passage in the geographical poem of Dionysius Periegetes embodies the notions of the ancients on the wealth and fertility of Yemen.

Greek mythology, and the traditions of the "gorgeous east," of India as well as Arabia, are mingled together in indiscriminate splendor.

Compare on the southern coast of Arabia, the recent travels of Lieut.

Wellsted--M.] [Footnote 8: Consult, peruse, and study the Specimen Hostoriae Arabum of Pocock, (Oxon.