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cap. 5.

15

Bleda, cap. 4.

16

Beuter, Cron. Gen. de España, L. 1, c. 28. Marmol Descrip. de Africa, L. 2, c. 10.

17

Bleda, Cron. c. 5.

18

Conde, Hist. Dom. Arab. part 1, c. 8.

19

Conde, part 1, c. 8.

20

Conde, part 1, c. 9.

21

La Perdida de España, cap. 9. Bleda, L. 2, c. 8.

22

This name was given to it subsequently by the Arabs. It signifies the River of Death. Vide Pedraza, Hist. Granad. p. 3, c. 1.

23

Bleda, Cronica.

24

Entrand. Chron. an. Chris. 714.

25

This battle is called indiscriminately by historians the battle of Guadalete, or of Xeres, from the neighborhood of that city.

26

Bleda, Cron. L. 2, c. 9. Abulcasim Tarif Abentarique, L. 1, c. 10.

27

Here lies Roderick,

The last King of the Goths.

28

Salazar, Hist. Gran. Cardinal. Prologo, vol. i. plan 1.

29

Mr. D. W – kie.

30

Lord Mah – n.

31

In this legend most of the facts respecting the Arab inroads into Spain are on the authority of Arabian writers, who had the most accurate means of information. Those relative to the Spaniards are chiefly from old Spanish chronicles. It is to be remarked that the Arab accounts have most the air of verity, and the events as they relate them are in the ordinary course of common life. The Spanish accounts, on the contrary, are full of the marvelous; for there were no greater romancers than the monkish chroniclers.

32

Conde, p. 1, c. 10.

33

Chronica de España, de Alonzo el Sabio. P. 3, c. 1.