undat vel in suum redit
locum."

Postea, p. 88. "Restat, ut causam adscribamus solo, sive quod
mari subest sive quod inundatur; potius tamen ei quod mari
subest. Hoc enim multo est mobilius, et quod ob humiditatem
celerius multari possit."--Strabo, Geog. Edit. Almelov. Amst.
1707, lib. 1.

[28] _Volcanic eruptions_, eruptiones flatuum, in the Latin
translations, and in the original Greek, [Greek: anaphysemata],
gaseous eruptions? or _inflations_ of land?--Ibid. p. 93.

[29] Strabo, lib. vi. p. 396.

[30] Book iv.

[31] L. vi. ch. xiii.

[32] Mod. Univ. Hist. vol. ii. chap. iv. section iii.

[33] Montes quandoque fiunt ex causa essentiali, quandoque ex
causa accidentali. Ex essentiali causa, ut ex vehementi motu
terrae elevatur terra, et fit mons. Accidentali, &c.--De
Congelatione Lapidum, ed. Gedani, 1682.

[34] Von Hoff, Geschichte der Veranderungen der Erdoberflache,
vol. i. p. 406, who cites Delisle, bey Hismann Welt- und
Volkergeschichte. Alte Geschichte 1^{ter} theil, s. 234.--The
Arabian persecutions for heretical dogmas in theology were often
very sanguinary. In the same ages wherein learning was most in
esteem, the Mahometans were divided into two sects, one of whom
maintained that the Koran was increate, and had subsisted in the
very essence of God from all eternity; and the other, the
Motazalites, who, admitting that the Koran was instituted by God,
conceived it to have been first made when revealed to the Prophet
at Mecca, and accused their opponents of believing in two eternal
beings. The opinions of each of these sects were taken up by
different caliphs in succession, and the followers of each
sometimes submitted to be beheaded, or flogged till at the point
of death, rather than renounce their creed.--Mod. Univ. Hist.
vol. ii. ch. iv.

[35] Koran, chap. xli.

[36] Sale's Koran, chap. xi. see note.

[37] Ibid.

[38] Kossa, appointed master to the Caliph Al Mamud, was author
of a book entitled "The history of the Patriarchs and Prophets,
_from the Creation of the World_."--Mod. Univ. Hist. vol. ii. ch.
iv.

[39] Translated by MM. Chezy and De Sacy, and cited by M. Elie de
Beaumont, Ann. des Sci. Nat. 1832.

[40] See