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CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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99,) allows about twenty-five English miles for a day's journey.

From the land of frankincense (Hadramaut, in Yemen, between Aden and Cape Fartasch) to Gaza in Syria, Pliny (Hist.Nat.

xii.
32) computes lxv.

mansions of camels.

These measures may assist fancy and elucidate facts.] [Footnote 18: Our notions of Mecca must be drawn from the Arabians, (D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, p.


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