al-Khalil”; and at each corner is the name of one of the four caliphs. In a note to the “Dabistan” (vol. ii. p. 410), we find two learned Orientalists confounding the Black Stone with Abraham’s Station or Platform. “The Prophet honoured the Black Stone, upon which Abraham conversed with Hagar, to which he tied his camels, and upon which the traces of his feet are still seen.” [FN#48] Not only here, I was told by learned Meccans, but under all the oval pavements surrounding the Ka’abah. [FN#49] The spring gushes from the southern base of Mount Arafat, as will afterwards be noticed. It is exceedingly pure. [FN#50] The author informs us that “the first pulpit was sent from Cairo in A.H. 818, together with the staircase, both being the gifts of Moayed, caliph of Egypt.” Ali Bey accurately describes the present Mambar. [FN#51] The curious will find a specimen of a Moslem sermon in Lane’s Mod. Egypt. Vol. i. ch. iii. [FN#52] Burckhardt “subjoins their names as they are usually written upon small cards by the Metowefs; in another column are the names by which they were known in more ancient times, principally taken from Azraky and Kotoby.” I have added a few remarks in brackets[.] [Mention is made of Modern names; Arches; and Ancient names.] 1. Bab el Salam, composed of gates or arches; 3; Bab Beni Shaybah (this is properly applied to the inner, not the outer Salam Gate.) 2. Bab el Neby; 2; Bab el Jenaiz, Gate of Biers, the dead being carried through it to the Mosque. 3. Bab el Abbas, opposite to this the house of Abbas once stood; 3; Bab Sertakat (some Moslem authors confound this Bab al-Abbas with the Gate of Biers.) 4. Bab Aly; 3; Bab Beni Hashem 5. Bab el Zayt Bab el Ashra; 2; Bab Bazan (so called from a neighbouring hill). 6. Bab el Baghlah; 2; 7. Bab el Szafa (Safa); 5; Bab Beni Makhzoum. 8. Bab Sherif; 2; Bab el Djiyad (so called because leading to the hill Jiyad) 9. Bab Medjahed; 2; Bab el Dokhmah. 10. Bab Zoleykha; 2; Bab Sherif Adjelan, who built it. 11. Bab Om Hany, so called from the daughter of Aby Taleb; 2; Bab el Hazoura (some write this Bab el Zarurah). 12. Bab el Wodaa (Al-Wida’a), through which the pilgrim passes when taking his final leave of the temple; 2; Bab el Kheyatyn, or Bab Djomah. 13. Bab Ibrahim, so called from a tailor who had a shop near it; 1; 14. Bab el Omra, through which pilgrims issue to visit the Omra. Also called Beni Saham; 1; Bab Amer Ibn el Aas, or Bab el Sedra. 15. Bab Atech (Al-Atik?); 1; Bab el Adjale. 16. Bab el Bastye; 1; Bab Zyade Dar el Nedoua. 17. Bab el Kotoby, so called from an historian of Mekka who lived in an adjoining lane and opened this small gate into the Mosque; 1; 18. Bab Zyade; 3; (It is called Bab Ziyadah—Gate of Excess—because it is a new structure thrown out into the Shamiyah, or Syrian quarter.) 19. Bab Dereybe; 1; Bab Medrese.