[140] Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 944.
[141] This word, improperly used and spelled by M. de Volney, has nothing to do with these Ansaris.
[142] Cicero de Somnio Scipronis.
[143] Pliny, lib. ii. cap. 73.
[144] Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 944.
[145] Strabo, lib. ii. p. 133.
[146] Spectacle de la Nature.
[147] Strabo, lib. 17. p. 944.
[148] L’histoire d’astronomie, de M. de la Lande, vol. i. lib. 2.
[149] Vide Mr Norden’s Voyage up the Nile.