Ommiades ... Abassides [_standard spellings for this text_]

Ibn Osaibe’s testimony [_text reads “Ibu”_]

body-physicians at the Court of Harun-al-Raschid
[_spelling as in original, but elsewhere spelled “Haroun”_]

Xenophon in his Anabasis [_text reads “Zenophon”_]

Megasthenes [_text reads “Megesthenes”_]

the first of the Grecian philosophers [_text reads “philosphers”_]

the Hindoos believe in _fourteen Menus_
[_and six further occurrences of “Menu”_]
[_standard spelling in this text: correct form is “Manu”_]

Libyans in war chariots with four horses [_text reads “Lybians”_]

under the reign of Pharoah Necho [_spelling as in original_]

from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean [_text reads “Mediterreanean”_]

Jackson in his “Antiquities” tells us that, [_comma in original_]

♁ Denotes a chaos
[_The symbol should look like an inverted “female” or “Venus”--
a cross above a circle-- but some fonts represent it as a cross
within a circle._]