[Footnote 16: Pocock will explain the chronology, (Specimen
Hist. Arabum, p. 66 - 74,) and D'Anville the geography,
(l'Euphrate, et le Tigre, p. 125,) of the dynasty of the
Almondars. The English scholar understood more Arabic than
the mufti of Aleppo, (Ockley, vol. ii. p. 34: ) the French
geographer is equally at home in every age and every climate
of the world.]