This mountain is generally supposed to be inaccessible. _Struy_ says, “I can well assure the reader that their opinion is not true, who suppose this mount to be inaccessible.” He adds, that “the lower part of the mountain is cloudy, misty, and dark; the middlemost part very cold, and like clouds of snow; but the upper regions perfectly calm.”—It was on this mountain that the ark was supposed to have rested after the Deluge, and part of it, they say, exists there still, which Struy thus gravely accounts for:—“Whereas none can remember that the air on the top of the hill did ever change or was subject either to wind or rain, which is presumed to be the reason that the Ark has endured so long without being rotten.”—See _Carreri_’s Travels, where the Doctor laughs at this whole account of Mount Ararat. Footnote 229: p. 177.—_The bridegroom, with his locks of light._ In one of the books of the Shâh Nâmeh, when Zal (a celebrated hero of Persia, remarkable for his white hair) comes to the terrace of his mistress Rodahver at night, she lets down her long tresses to assist him in his ascent;—he, however, manages it in a less romantic way, by fixing his crook in a projecting beam.—See _Champion’s Ferdosi_. Footnote 230: p. 177.—_The rock-goats of_ ARABIA _clamber._ “On the lofty hills of Arabia Petræa are rock-goats.”—_Niebuhr._ Footnote 231: p. 178.—_Some ditty to her soft Kanoon._ “Canun, espèce de psaltérion, avec des cordes de boyaux; les dames en touchent dans le sérail, avec des écailles armées de pointes de cooc.”—_Toderini, translated by De Cournand._ Footnote 232: p. 184.—_The Gheber belt that round him clung._ “They (the Ghebers) lay so much stress on their cushee or girdle, as not to dare to be an instant without it.”—_Grose_’s Voyage.—“Le jeune homme nia d’abord la chose; mais, ayant été dépouillé de sa robe, et la large ceinture qu’il portoit comme Ghebr,” &c. &c.—_D’Herbelot_, art. Agduani. “Pour se distinguer des Idolâtres de l’Inde, les Guèbres se ceignent tous d’un cordon de laine, ou de poil de chameau.”—_Encyclopédie Françoise._ D’Herbelot says this belt was generally of leather. Footnote 233: p. 184.—_Among the living lights of heaven._