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 ( 2 ) THREE CRUMP TWIN-BROTHERS OF DAMASCUS.

UNDER the Caliphat of Watik-billah, grand ſon of Haroun Arrefchid, there dwelt at Damaſcus * an old man called Behemrillah, who did but juſt get a poor livelihood by making Steel- Bows, Swords, Sabres, and knife-Blades. Of thirteen children which he had by one wife, ten died all in one year; but the three that remained were ſo add a figure, that it was impoſſible to look at them without laughing: They were crook- ed both behind and before, blind of the left eye, lame of the right foot, and ſo perfectly like one another in face, ape, and clothes which they always wore the fame with one another, that even their father and mother ſometimes miſtook one for the other. Of the three ſons of Behemrillah, the eldeſt was named Ibad, the ſecond Syahouk, and the third about forty Icagues from Aleppo. It is mightly reſorted to for its Knives, Bows and Sabres; The steel of Damaſcus is in very great eſteem.
 * Damaſcus is a city of Syria, at the foot of Mount Libanus.