Note 2598 — Chapter XIII · EXPORTS FROM AFRICA AND THE EAST.
Reading edition
Eurip. Med. 1183, sqq. Plin. Nat. Hist. ii. 109. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. x. p. 15, note 18, where, in speaking of the Greek Fire, the historian touches incidentally on the qualities of naphtha.