FOOTNOTES:
[69] Gibbon remarks that if the Saracen conquests had not then been checked, "perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet."
[70] Of the Hegira.
[71] Probably the Loire.
[72] An. Heg.