been maintained in Arabia, Mahomet must
have been crushed in his cradle, and Abyssinia would have prevented a
revolution which has changed the civil and religious state of the world.
[100] [1001]

[Footnote 92: See Buffon, Hist. Naturelle, tom. iii. p. 449. This
Arab cast of features and complexion, which has continued 3400 years
(Ludolph. Hist. et Comment. Aethiopic. l. i. c. 4) in the colony of
Abyssinia, will justify the suspicion, that race, as well as climate,
must have contributed to form the negroes of the adjacent and similar
regions. * Note: Mr. Salt (Travels, vol. ii. p. 458) considers them
to be distinct from the Arabs--"in feature, color, habit, and
manners."--M.]

[Footnote 93: The Portuguese missionaries, Alvarez, (Ramusio, tom. i.
fol. 204, rect. 274, vers.) Bermudez, (Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. ii. l.
v. c. 7, p. 1149--1188,) Lobo, (Relation, &c., par M. le Grand, with
xv. Dissertations, Paris, 1728,) and Tellez (Relations de Thevenot,
part iv.) could only relate of modern Abyssinia what they had seen or
invented. The erudition of Ludolphus, (Hist. Aethiopica, Francofurt,
1681. Commentarius, 1691. Appendix, 1694,) in twenty-five languages,
could add little concerning its ancient history. Yet the fame of Caled,
or Ellisthaeus, the conqueror of Yemen, is celebrated in national songs
and legends.]

[Footnote 94: The negotiations of Justinian with the Axumites, or
Aethiopians, are recorded by Procopius (Persic. l. i. c. 19, 20) and
John Malala, (tom. ii. p. 163--165, 193--196.) The historian of Antioch
quotes the original narrative of the ambassador Nonnosus, of which
Photius (Bibliot. Cod. iii.) has preserved a curious extract.]

[Footnote 95: The trade of the Axumites to the coast of India and
Africa, and the Isle of Ceylon, is curiously represented by Cosmas
Indicopleustes, (Topograph. Christian. l. ii. p. 132, 138, 139, 140, l.
xi. p. 338, 339.)]

[Footnote 9511: It appears by the important inscription discovered
by Mr. Salt at Axoum, and from a law of Constantius, (16th Jan. 356,
inserted in the Theodosian Code, l. 12, c. 12,) that in the middle of
the fourth century of our era the princes of the Axumites joined to
their titles that of king of the Homerites. The conquests which they
made over the Arabs in the sixth century were only a restoration of the
ancient order of things. St. Martin vol. viii. p. 46--M.]

[Footnote 96: Ludolph. Hist. et Comment. Aethiop. l. ii. c. 3.]

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