“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-coloured flowers), others come forth in their stead,” &c. &c.—_Nieuhoff._ Footnote 128: p. 96.—_With which the Dives have gifted him._ The Demons of the Persian mythology. Footnote 129: p. 96.—_That spangle_ INDIA’S _fields on showery nights._ Carreri mentions the fire-flies in India during the rainy season.—See his Travels. Footnote 130: p. 96.—_Who brush’d the thousands of the’ Assyrian King._ Sennacherib, called by the Orientals King of Moussal.—_D’Herbelot._ Footnote 131: p. 97.—_Of_ PARVIZ. 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._ Footnote 132: p. 97.—_And the heron crest that shone._ “The crown of Gerashid is cloudy and tarnished before the heron tuft of thy turban.”—From one of the elegies or songs in praise of Ali, written in characters of gold round the gallery of Abbas’s tomb.—See _Chardin_. Footnote 133: p. 97.—_Magnificent, o’er_ ALI’S _beauteous eyes._ The beauty of Ali’s eyes was so remarkable, that whenever the Persians would describe any thing as very lovely, they say it is Ayn Hali, or the Eyes of Ali.—_Chardin._ Footnote 134: p. 98.—_Rise from the Holy Well, and cast its light._ We are not told more of this trick of the Impostor, than that it was “une machine, qu’il disoit être la Lune.” According to Richardson, the miracle is perpetuated in Nekscheb.—“Nakshab, the name of a city in Transoxiana, where they say there is a well, in which the appearance of the moon is to be seen night and day.” Footnote 135: p. 98.—_Round the rich city and the plain for miles._ “Il amusa pendant deux mois le peuple de la ville de Nekhscheb, en faisant sortir toutes les nuits du fond d’un puits un corps lumineux semblable à la Lune, qui portoit sa lumière jusqu’à la distance de plusieurs milles.”—_D’Herbelot._ Hence he was called Sazendéhmah, or the Moon-maker. Footnote 136: p. 99.—_Had rested on the Ark._ The Shechinah, called Sakînat in the Koran.—See _Sale’s Note_, chap. ii. Footnote 137: p. 99.—_Of the small drum with which they count the night._ The parts of the night are made known as well by instruments of music, as by the rounds of the watchmen with cries and small drums.—See _Burder’s Oriental Customs_, vol. i. p. 119. Footnote 138: p. 99.—_On for the lamps, that light yon lofty screen._