[Footnote 138: I find a description and history of the
Maronites in the Voyage de la Syrie et du Mont Liban par la
Roque, (2 vols. in 12mo., Amsterdam, 1723; particularly tom.
i. p. 42 - 47, p. 174 - 184, tom. ii. p. 10 - 120.) In the
ancient part, he copies the prejudices of Nairon and the
other Maronites of Rome, which Assemannus is afraid to
renounce and ashamed to support. Jablonski, (Institut. Hist.
Christ. tom. iii. p. 186.) Niebuhr, (Voyage de l'Arabie,
&c., tom. ii. p. 346, 370 - 381,) and, above all, the
judicious Volney, (Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie, tom. ii. p.
8 - 31, Paris, 1787,) may be consulted.]