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 persons of bid to search for it, who bringing out these eieren names one sfter another, in seeming indignation, rent then all to pieces, and eatching the favourite Isv the hand, where the nane of Christ tras concea - ed, opened it, and held it up to the Moxul, witirout teering the same. Upon which the Mogul gave his kreper a pension, calling line the Divining rape. The truth whereof, saith Mr Terry, chaplain to Sir Thomas Row, was confirmed by several diferent religions.

Q. Is there not a strange relation of an apparition that happened at Mahomets tomb?

A. Mr Knowles, in his listory of the Turks, af- firms as a certain truth, that, in 1620, a surprising vision was seen at Medina, in Arabia, wiere Ma hos:et lies buried, which continued twenty days, ter- rifying the whole country. On September the 20th in that year, a great tempest of wind, rain, and then- vler happened about midnight; but when the sky be- came clear, the people might plainly read in it, in A- rabian characters, these words:-“Oh! way will ye believe in lice?" And hetween two and three in the morning, appeared a woman clothed in white, seeming to be compassed with the sun, having a cheerful countenanco, with a look in her hand 0. ver against her were seven armies c: Turks, Persiane, Arabians, and other Mahometans; in battle array, ready to fight with her ; but she keeping her station, only opened the book at which the armies fledi, arsa presently all the lamps about Mahonet's tomb went out. For when the vision vanished, an hour before. sun-rising, a muruuring wind was learel, to which they imputed the extippnishing of the lamps.

Q. What events happened thereupon ?

A. The ancient pilgrims of Mahomet's race were