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CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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* Note: Of modern travellers may be mentioned the adventurer who called himself Ali Bey; but above all, the intelligent, the enterprising the accurate Burckhardt .-- M.] [Footnote 3: Abulfed.Descript.Arabiae, p.1.

D'Anville, l'Euphrate et le Tigre, p.

19, 20.

It was in this place, the paradise or garden of a satrap, that Xenophon and the Greeks first passed the Euphrates, (Anabasis, l.i.c.10, p.

29, edit.


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