Note 33 — GREECE.
Leonhard Schmitz translation
The words of Sardinia have been inserted by conjecture. The MS. containing the clause as was the case, &c., has the words by the Saracens. But it is well known, that in the eleventh century, that is, about the time of the conquest of Sardinia, Pisa had 150,000 inhabitants, whereas at present it scarcely has the tenth part of that number.—Ed.