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6 devoted his life to their translation, and thus created a Nabathæo-Arabic library, of which three complete works—to say nothing of the fragments of a fourth—have descended to our days. The three complete works are, first, “The Book of Nabathæan Agriculture;” second,  “The Book of Poisons;” third,  “The Book of Tenkelúshá the Babylonian.” The incomplete work is  “A work on the Secrets of the Sun and Moon.” Of these four books, “The Book of Nabathæan Agriculture” is by far the most important and the most interesting. It is this one which will now principally occupy our attention.