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 cerning which they are very superstitious, is covered with a small building and cupola; the Mohammedans persuade themselves, that this was the spring which pushed out for the relief of Ishmael when Hagar his mother wandered with him in the wilderness; the water of course is highly prized, More particular directions are given in the twenty-second chapter entitled Pilgrimage. "Proclaim unto the people a solemn pilgrimage, let them come unto thee on foot and on every lean camel, arriving from every distant road, let them pay their vows and compass the ancient house." The compassing the Ca-aba or Temple a certain number of times, and in different paces, running between the mountains of Safa and Merwa, throwing stones in the valley of Mina, together with the rites and lustrations afterwards performed, are relics of pagan superstition, unworthy of further notice, and adopted by the son of Ab-dollah into his