The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 3J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... descended in the twenty - first de- gree ; and , although we have genealogies of ALKAMAH and other Himyarick bards as high as the thirtieth degree , or for a period of nine hundred years at least , yet we can hardly depend on them fo ...
... descended in the twenty - first de- gree ; and , although we have genealogies of ALKAMAH and other Himyarick bards as high as the thirtieth degree , or for a period of nine hundred years at least , yet we can hardly depend on them fo ...
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