Note 012 Procopius de Aedificiis,1. i. c. 5. His description is confirmed by modern travellers. See Thevenot. part. i. 1. i. c. 15. Tournefort, Lettre XII. Niebubr, Voyage d'Arabie, p. 22.

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Note to Chapter 17 of Decline and Fall by Gibbon