[Footnote 73: Abulfeda in Vit. c. 7, p. 15. Gagnier, tom.
i. p. 133, 135. The situation of Mount Hera is remarked by
Abulfeda (Geograph. Arab p. 4.) Yet Mahomet had never read
of the cave of Egeria, ubi nocturnae Numa constituebat
amicae, of the Idaean Mount, where Minos conversed with
Jove, &c.]