Note 116
From The Invasion of Egypt, part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

Abulpharag. Dynast. p. 114, vers. Pocock. Audi quid factum sit et mirare. It would be endless to enumerate the moderns who have wondered and believed, but I may distinguish with honour the rational scepticism of Renaudot (Hist. Alex. Patriarch, p. 170): historia ... habet aliquid ut Arabibus familiare est.

Note 116 From The Invasion of Egypt, part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

Note 116
From The Invasion of Egypt, part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall