Corruption of the Text of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall."

A corruption, which seems to have arisen from an attempt at emendation, has crept into Note 17. on the 55th chapter of Gibbon's *History*. *Root* is twice printed instead of *roof* in the later editions, including, Mr. Milman's. "What comes from the roof," may not be very intelligible; still *roof* is the word in the original edition of Gibbon, where it corresponds to *toit* in Gibbon's authority, Fleury, and to *tectum* in Fleury's authority.