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 Morocco, whose sovereign had the title of Miramoulin, the last who bore it being the celebrated Muley-Ismael, who played a conspicuous part in the history of the seventeenth century.

4. That of Egypt, under the sway of the Fatimites, who occupy a great position in Mahometan history.

5. That of Damascus, in Syria, under especially those remarkable sovereigns, Noradin and Saladin, whose names figure so conspicuously in the history of the crusades, and even in our own contemporaneous English annals.

6. The Mogul empire in Hindostan, of the riches and splendour of which the accurate descriptions of grave historians sound more like Oriental fiction than a sober reality, although the remains, which exist even at the present day, are satisfactory evidence that they were not exaggerated nor over-coloured.

7. The seventh throne of the beast was the Moorish kingdom of Granada, in Spain, which has undoubtedly left monuments behind it of its power and its magnificence that can never be surpassed.

These, then, were the seven heads or thrones of the beast; these all existed and flourished