Note 136 Abu Rafe, the servant of Mahomet, is said to affirm that he himself, and seven other men, afterwards tried, without success, to move the same gate from the ground, (Abulfeda, p. 90.) Abu Rafe was an eye- witness, but who will be witness for Abu Rafe?]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 50