Note 79 — THE ALLEGED HISTORICAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
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It was on the 5th of January, 1771, the day appointed by the high priests, that Oubacha began his march, with seventy thousand families. Most of the hordes were then assembled in the steppes, on the left bank of the Volga, and the whole multitude followed him."—Hommaire de Hell, Travels, p. 227, E. T.