[Footnote 86: Et pontem indignatus Araxes. - Virgil, Aeneid,
viii. 728. The River Araxes is noisy, rapid, vehement, and,
with the melting of the snows, irresistible: the strongest
and most massy bridges are swept away by the current; and
its indignation is attested by the ruins of many arches near
the old town of Zulfa. Voyages de Chardin, tom. i. p. 252.]