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[ North lat. 26°, which would correspond with that of the Abá'l-Maru' ruins.]
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[ My friend Sprenger strongly protests against Ælius Gallus, begging me to abandon him, as the Romans must long have held the whole coast to El-Haurá, their chief settlement.]
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[ For a specimen of the superficiality which characterizes Lane's "Modern Egyptians," and of the benefits which, despite the proverbial difficulty of changing an old book into a new one, an edition, much enlarged and almost rewritten, would confer upon students, see Vol. III. Chap. XXI. Instead of a short abstract of all this celebrated story, we have only popular excerpts from the first volume.]
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[ On the maritime road between Meccah and El-Medínah, celebrated for the apostolic battle which took place in A.H. 2.]
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[ The names marked with interrogations are unknown to all the Arabs whom I consulted : they are probably obsolete.]