countrymen. The third general or governor of Africa,
Zuheir, avenged and encountered the fate of his predecessor. He
vanquished the natives in many battles; he was overthrown by a powerful
army, which Constantinople had sent to the relief of Carthage.

[Footnote 150: Regio ignobilis, et vix quicquam illustre sortita, parvis
oppidis habitatur, parva flumina emittit, solo quam viris meleor et
segnitie gentis obscura. Pomponius Mela, i. 5, iii. 10. Mela deserves
the more credit, since his own Phoenician ancestors had migrated from
Tingitana to Spain (see, in ii. 6, a passage of that geographer so
cruelly tortured by Salmasius, Isaac Vossius, and the most virulent of
critics, James Gronovius). He lived at the time of the final reduction
of that country by the emperor Claudius: yet almost thirty years
afterward, Pliny (Hist. Nat. v. i.) complains of his authors, to lazy
to inquire, too proud to confess their ignorance of that wild and remote
province.]

[Footnote 151: The foolish fashion of this citron wood prevailed at Rome
among the men, as much as the taste for pearls among the women. A round
board or table, four or five feet in diameter, sold for the price of
an estate (latefundii taxatione), eight, ten, or twelve thousand pounds
sterling (Plin. Hist. Natur. xiii. 29). I conceive that I must not
confound the tree citrus, with that of the fruit citrum. But I am not
botanist enough to define the former (it is like the wild cypress) by
the vulgar or Linnaean name; nor will I decide whether the citrum be the
orange or the lemon. Salmasius appears to exhaust the subject, but
he too often involves himself in the web of his disorderly erudition.
(Flinian. Exercitat. tom. ii. p 666, &c.)]

[Footnote 152: Leo African. fol. 16, verso. Marmol, tom. ii. p. 28. This
province, the first scene of the exploits and greatness of the cherifs
is often mentioned in the curious history of that dynasty at the end of
the third volume of Marmol, Description de l'Afrique. The third vol. of
The Recherches Historiques sur les Maures (lately published at Paris)
illustrates the history and geography of the kingdoms of Fez and
Morocco.]

[Footnote 153: Otter (p. 119,) has given the strong tone of fanaticism
to this exclamation, which Cardonne (p. 37,) has softened to a pious
wish of preaching the Koran. Yet they had both the same text of Novairi
before their eyes.]

[A. D. 670-675.] It had been the frequent practice of the Moorish tribes
to joi