[197] Strab. ii. 81.
[198] Larachi or Al Arish, on the coast of Marocco.
[199] Humboldt, in confirmation of this statement, quotes the case of a counterpart for the horse’s head belonging to the Gades-ship, referred to by Eudoxus, as having occurred in the remains of a ship of the Red Sea, which was brought to Crete by westerly currents, according to the account of the trustworthy Arabian historian Masudi.—Humboldt’s “Cosmos,” vol. ii. p. 389.
[200] Periplus of the Erythræan Sea, vol. ii. p. 189 et seq.
[201] Numbers xx. 14.
[202] Judges viii. 24-26.
[203] Macpherson, i. pp. 7, 8.
[204] Heeren, Gen. Introd. p. xxv.
[205] Herod. i. 1.
[206] Ezek. xxvii. v. 7.