[Footnote 188: This design, which is attested by several
Arabian historians, (Cardonne, tom. i. p. 95, 96,) may be
compared with that of Mithridates, to march from the Crimaea
to Rome; or with that of Caesar, to conquer the East, and
return home by the North; and all three are perhaps
surpassed by the real and successful enterprise of
Hannibal.]