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(242), violet-colour eye-lids, attributed by the Greeks to the goddess of beauty.

The stream thus denominated, flows near the city of Schiraz. Its waters are uncommonly pure and limpid, and its banks swarded with the finest verdure. Its praises are celebrated by Hafez, in an animated song, which Sir W. Jones has admirably translated:—

Mosella was an oratory on the banks of Rocnabad.

Those amongst the Mahometans who were bred to the law, had this title; and the judges of cities and provinces were taken from their order.

That part of the temple at Mecca which is chiefly revered, and, indeed, gives a sanctity to