Into the Idol's heart, Hilt-deep he drove the Sword.. The Ocean-Vault fell in, and all were crush'd. In the same moment, at the gate Of Paradise, Oneiza's Houri form Welcom❜d her Husband to eternal bliss. NOTES TO BOOK XII. A rebel Afreet lay.-P. 271. One of these evil Genii is thus described in the Bahar Danush: On his entrance, he beheld a black demon heaped on the ground like a mountain, with two large horns upon his head, and a long proboscis, fast asleep. In his head the Divine Creator had joined the likenesses of the elephant and the wild bull. His teeth grew out as the tusks of a boar, and all over his monstrous carcase hung shaggy hairs, like those of the bear. The eye of mortal-born was dimmed at his appearance, and the mind, at his horrible form, and frightful figure, was confounded. He was an Afreet, created from mouth to foot by the wrath of God. His hair like a bear's, his teeth like a boar's. No one ever beheld such a monster. Crook-backed, and crabbed-faced; he might be scented at the distance of a thousand fersungs. His nostrils were like the ovens of brick-burners, and his mouth resembled the vat of a dyer. When his breath came forth, from its vehemence the dust rose up as in a whirlwind, so as to leave a chasm in the earth; and when he drew it in, chaff, sand, and pebbles, from the distance of some yards, were attracted to his nostrils.-Bahar Danush. Al-Araf in his wisdom? &c-P. 278. Araf is a place between the Paradise and the Fell of the Mahommedans; some deem it a veil of separation, some a strong wall. Others hold it to be a Purgatory, in which those believers will remain, whose good and evil works have been so equal, that they were neither virtuous enough to enter Paradise, nor guilty enough to be condemned to the fire of Hell. From thence they see the glory of the blessed, and are near enough to congratulate them; but their ardent desire to partake the same happiness, becomes a great pain. At length, at the day of judgment, when all men before they are judged, shall be cited to render homage to their Creator, those who are here confined, shall prostrate themselves before the face of the Lord, in adoration; and by this act of religion, which shall be accounted a merit, the number of |