Note 016
Pocock, Specimen, p. 57. Geograph. Nubiensis, p. 52. Meriaba, or Merab, six miles in circumference, was destroyed by the legions of Augustus, (Plin. Hist. Nat. vi. 32,) and had not revived in the xivth century (Abulfed. Descript. Arab. p. 58.).

^{Note: See note 2 to chap. i. The destruction of Meriaba by
the Romans is doubtful. The town never recovered the
inundation which took place from the bursting of a large
reservoir of water - an event of great importance in the
Arabian annals, and discussed at considerable length by
modern Orientalists. - M.}

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