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Footnotes

[119]

Pliny, lib. vi, cap. 28, and Strabo, lib. xvi.

[120]

Ibid.

[121]

The caravans of Aleppo and Suez carry thither annually to the value of about two millions of livres, and as much more clandestinely; the royal vessel of Suez carries thither also two millions.

[122]

Book ii, p. 181, ed. 1587.

[123]

Book vi, chap. 23.

[124]

He says, in his twelfth book, that the Romans employed a hundred and twenty ships in that trade; and, in book xvii, that the Grecian kings scarcely employed twenty.

[125]

Book i, chap. 2.

[126]

Book i, chap. 13.

[127]

Our best maps place Peter's tower in the hundredth degree of longitude, and about the fortieth of latitude.

[128]

Suetonius, "Life of Claudius," 18; Leg. 8 Cod. Theodos. de naviculariis.