30: Murtadi, p. 164-167. The reader will not easily credit
a human sacrifice under the Christian emperors, or a miracle of the
successors of Mahomet.]

[Footnote 131: Maillet, Description de l'Egypte, p. 22. He mentions this
number as the common opinion; and adds, that the generality of these
villages contain two or three thousand persons, and that many of them
are more populous than our large cities.]

[Footnote 132: Eutych. Annal. tom. ii. p. 308, 311. The twenty millions
are computed from the following data: one twelfth of mankind above
sixty, one third below sixteen, the proportion of men to women as
seventeen or sixteen, (Recherches sur la Population de la France, p. 71,
72.) The president Goguet (Origine des Arts, &c., tom. iii. p. 26, &c.)
Bestows twenty-seven millions on ancient Egypt, because the seventeen
hundred companions of Sesostris were born on the same day.]

[Footnote 133: Elmacin, Hist. Saracen. p. 218; and this gross lump is
swallowed without scruple by D'Herbelot, (Bibliot. Orient. p. 1031,) Ar.
buthnot, (Tables of Ancient Coins, p. 262,) and De Guignes, (Hist. des
Huns, tom. iii. p. 135.) They might allege the not less extravagant
liberality of Appian in favor of the Ptolemies (in praefat.) of seventy
four myriads, 740,000 talents, an annual income of 185, or near 300
millions of pounds sterling, according as we reckon by the Egyptian or
the Alexandrian talent, (Bernard, de Ponderibus Antiq. p. 186.)]

[Footnote 134: See the measurement of D'Anville, (Mem. sur l'Egypte,
p. 23, &c.) After some peevish cavils, M. Pauw (Recherches sur les
Egyptiens, tom. i. p. 118-121) can only enlarge his reckoning to 2250
square leagues.]

[Footnote 135: Renaudot, Hist. Patriarch. Alexand. p. 334, who calls
the common reading or version of Elmacin, error librarii. His own
emendation, of 4,300,000 pieces, in the ixth century, maintains a
probable medium between the 3,000,000 which the Arabs acquired by the
conquest of Egypt, (idem, p. 168.) and the 2,400,000 which the sultan of
Constantinople levied in the last century, (Pietro della Valle, tom.
i. p. 352 Thevenot, part i. p. 824.) Pauw (Recherches, tom. ii. p.
365-373) gradually raises the revenue of the Pharaohs, the Ptolemies,
and the Caesars, from six to fifteen millions of German crowns.]

[Footnote 136: The list of Schultens (Index Geograph. ad calcem Vit.
Saladin. p. 5) contains 2396 places; that of D'Anville, (Mem. sur
l'Egypte, p. 29,) from the divan of