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CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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17, p.
230, with Sale's Observations.] [Footnote 38: Procopius (de Bell.Persic.l.i.c.

16) places the two holy months about the summer solstice.

The Arabians consecrate four months of the year--the first, seventh, eleventh, and twelfth; and pretend, that in a long series of ages the truce was infringed only four or six times, (Sale's Preliminary Discourse, p.

147-150, and Notes on the ixth chapter of the Koran, p.

154, &c.


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