[223] Lib. x. c. 24.
[224] "The habitations of the people here (at Hameden) were equally mean as those of the villages through which we had passed before. The occupiers of these last resembled, very strongly, the African Arabs, or Moors, and also the mixed race of Egypt, in their physiognomy, complexion, and dress. The reception, given by these villagers to my Tartar companions, was like that of the most abject slaves to a powerful master; and the manner in which the yellow-crowned courtiers of the Sublime Porte treated their entertainers in return, was quite as much in the spirit of the despotic sultan whom they served."—Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia, vol. ii. p. 18.
[225] Herodotus; Diodorus Siculus; Plutarch; Arrian; Quintus Curtius; Rollin; Rennell; Morier; Sir R. Ker Porter; Buckingham.
[226] Rollin.
[227] Dodwell.
[228] Rollin; Barthelemy; Wheler; Chandler; Sandwich; Clarke; Hobhouse; Dodwell.
[229] Gillies.
[230] Chandler.
[231] Pausanias; Plutarch; Barthelemy; Chandler; Dodwell; Rees; Gillies.
[232] Breadth scarcely anywhere exceeding forty miles.