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[ Gierusalomme Liberata, canto xiii. It is pleasant enough to observe how Tasso has copied and embellished the minutest details of the siege.]
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[ This does not appear by Wilken’s account, (p. 294.) They fought in vair the whole of the Thursday.—M.]
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[ Besides the Latins, who are not ashamed of the massacre, see Elmacin, (Hist. Saracen. p. 363,) Abulpharagius, (Dynast. p. 243,) and M. De Guignes, tom. ii. p. ii. p. 99, from Aboulmahasen.]
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[ The old tower Psephina, in the middle ages Neblosa, was named Castellum Pisanum, from the patriarch Daimbert. It is still the citadel, the residence of the Turkish aga, and commands a prospect of the Dead Sea, Judea, and Arabia, (D’Anville, p. 19-23.) It was likewise called the Tower of David.]
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[ Hume, in his History of England, vol. i. p. 311, 312, octavo edition.]