[Footnote 53: Suillis carnibus abstinent, says Solinus,
(Polyhistor. c. 33,) who copies Pliny (l. viii. c. 68) in
the strange supposition, that hogs can not live in Arabia.
The Egyptians were actuated by a natural and superstitious
horror for that unclean beast, (Marsham, Canon. p. 205.) The
old Arabians likewise practised, post coitum, the rite of
ablution, (Herodot. l. i. c. 80,) which is sanctified by the
Mahometan law, (Reland, p. 75, &c., Chardin, or rather the
Mollah of Shah Abbas, tom. iv. p. 71, &c.)]