52.
Meriaba, or Merab, six miles in circumference, was destroyed by the legions of Augustus, (Plin.Hist.Nat.vi.

32,) and had not revived in the xivth century, (Abulfed.Descript.Arab.p.

58.) * Note: See note 2 to chap.i.The destruction of Meriaba by the Romans is doubtful.

The town never recovered the inundation which took place from the bursting of a large reservoir of water--an event of great importance in the Arabian annals, and discussed at considerable length by modern Orientalists .-- M.] [Footnote 17: The name of city, Medina, was appropriated, to Yatreb.
(the Iatrippa of the Greeks,) the seat of the prophet.

The distances from Medina are reckoned by Abulfeda in stations, or days' journey of a caravan, (p.