"Alla Acbar!" says Ockley, means,
"God is most mighty."
[112] The ziraleet is a kind of chorus, which the women of the East sing
upon joyful occasions.
[113] The Dead Sea, which contains neither animal nor vegetable life.
[114] The ancient Oxus.
[115] A city of Transoxiana.
[116] "You never can cast your eyes on this tree, but you meet there
either blossoms or fruit; and as the blossom drops underneath on the
ground (which is frequently covered with these purple-colored flowers),
others come forth in their stead," etc.--_Nieuhoff_.
[117] The Demons of the Persian mythology.
[118] Carreri mentions the fire-flies in India during the rainy
season.--See his Travels.
[119] Sennacherib, called by the Orientals King of Moussal.--_D'Herbelot_.
[120] Chosroes. For the description of his Throne or Palace, see _Gibbon
and D'Herbelot_.
There were said to be under this Throne or Palace of Khosrou Parviz a
hundred vaults filled with "treasures so immense that some Mahometan
writers tell us, their Prophet to encourage his disciples carried them to
a rock which at his command opened and gave them a prospect through it of
the treasures of Khosrou."--_Universal History_.
[121] "The crown of Gerashid is cloudy and tarnished before the heron tuft
of thy turban.
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