Note 140 The imaginary rampart of Gog and Magog, which was seriously explored and believed by a caliph of the ninth century, appears to be derived from the gates of Mount Caucasus, and a vague report of the wall of China, (Geograph. Nubiensis, p. 267 - 270. Memoires de l'Academie, tom. xxxi. p. 210 - 219.)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 40