Note 043
The Greek fire, on Timour's side, is attested
by Sherefeddin, (l. v. c. 47;) but Voltaire's strange
suspicion, that some cannon, inscribed with strange
characters, must have been sent by that monarch to Delhi, is
refuted by the universal silence of contemporaries.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 65