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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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19.)] [Footnote 10: See the Specimen Historiae Arabum of Pocock, p.

2, 5, 86, &c.

The journey of M.d'Arvieux, in 1664, to the camp of the emir of Mount Carmel, (Voyage de la Palestine, Amsterdam, 1718,) exhibits a pleasing and original picture of the life of the Bedoweens, which may be illustrated from Niebuhr (Description de l'Arabie, p.

327-344) and Volney, (tom.i.p.

343-385,) the last and most judicious of our Syrian travellers.] [Footnote 11: Read (it is no unpleasing task) the incomparable articles of the Horse and the Camel, in the Natural History of M.de Buffon.] [Footnote 12: For the Arabian horses, see D'Arvieux (p.


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