Note 086
From Chapter 46 of the Decline & Fall

Et pontem indignatus Araxes. - Virgil, Aeneid, viii. 728.

The River Araxes is noisy, rapid, vehement, and, with the melting of the snows, irresistible: the strongest and most massy bridges are swept away by the current; and its indignation is attested by the ruins of many arches near the old town of Zulfa. Voyages de Chardin, tom. i. p. 252.

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