[Footnote 170: The Orientals, Elmacin, Abulpharagius,
Abulfeda, pass over the conquest of Spain in silence, or
with a single word. The text of Novairi and the other
Arabian writers, is represented, though with some foreign
alloy, by M. de Car donne (Hist. de l'Afrique et de
l'Espagne sous la Domination des Arabes, Paris, 1765, 3
vols. in 12mo, tom. i. p. 55-114), and more concisely by M.
de Guignes (Hist. des Huns, tom. i. p. 347-350). The
librarian of the Escurial has not satisfied my hopes: yet he
appears to have searched with diligence his broken
materials; and the history of the conquest is illustrated by
some valuable fragments of the genuine Razis (who wrote at
Corduba, A.H. 300) of Ben Hazil, etc. See Biblioth. Arabico
Hispana, tom. ii. p. 32, 105, 105, 182, 252, 319-332. On
this occasion the industry of Pagi has been aided by the
Arabic learning of his friend the Abbe de Longuerue, and to
their joint labours I am deeply indebted.]